CAREER chasing in the country’s capital, this lawyer yearns for a return to the places of her heart. Clint Holton P. Potestas tells us why.
“The dream has always been there,” beams Maria Esperanza Christina Garcia Codilla, recalling the time when she decided to become a lawyer in Manila. Also, thereafter, a pact was made: to return to where she left her heart.
“I try to come home twice a month because I always get very homesick,” the lady lawyer reveals. “I’ve never lost the desire to be with my family in Cebu.” Christina, as friends often refer to her, is the second of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia’s three children.
“I’ve been based in Manila for 10 years because I started college there,” Christina says. After completing a degree in Legal Management at the Ateneo de Manila University, she then advanced to Doctor of Laws in the same institution.
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