Eeee. Laya was wondering when the Filipino contingent would show up. 
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8. Leonor Rivera is said to have been the inspiration for that character. She was a cousin of Rizal, and her mother didn't like him because she thought he was not stable enough for her daughter. Although Rizal is said to have liked at least a couple of girls before her, she was his first real love, and he only married another after he learned she was dead.
Laya was privileged to be on the team that interviewed Rizal's grand-nephew a few months ago. He told us that Leonor's mother intercepted all of Rizal and Leonor's letters to each other, so that each thought the other had forgotten him/her. Only after Leonor had agreed to marry the man her mother chose for her, was she shown the letters on the evening before her wedding. Then her mother told her that a married woman should not keep the letters of another man, and that the letters should be burned. If she could not keep the actual letters, Leonor then begged to keep the ashes in a box. After wringing this small concession from her mother, Leonor then vowed that she would never play the piano again, which was said to be one of her best accomplishments. She was dead before she had been married a year.
Rizal was in Dapitan when Leonor died. One of his sisters, who was there at the time, told him of her death. Family history said that Rizal went out to his little cottage in the garden and would not talk to anyone for days. He would not eat or drink because of his grief.
15k to luvin0it for giving the correct name, and another 15k for answering what she meant to Rizal.
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