My tall, dark and handsome first-degree cousin Fidel S. Tutor, Jr. also made it to this year's bar roster. Uncle Fidel Sr. called me up from the US recently to make sure I come to the Tutors' celebratory reunion come July this year.
As a manner of congratulating my cousin, let me quote this interesting vignette of the checkered life of new lawyer Fidel "Ondoy" Tutor Jr. by Dan Dan Bantugan in his Obiter Dictum column in Bohol Chronicle:***********
But in our street, the neighbor to the right side of the house, Atty. Antonio Arabejo is also a legal practitioner. With the release of the bar results last Friday, we have the third lawyer in Everlasting Street, Atty. Fidel S. Tutor Jr., who is the neighbor to the left side of our house.
In other words, we are living in between two lawyers also. We don't know if Arabejo's neighbor to the right or Tutor's neighbor to the left are also planning to take up law. In that case, we might as well re-name our street at the Legal Street. Joke only.
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Speaking of the newest lawyer in Everlasting Street, Atty. Fidel S. Tutor is not only a neighbor. He is our student, client and friend. We consider his wife Nila, a registered nurse and their siblings, Angelie and Aron, part of the family already.
Ondoy, as Tutor is fondly called in our street, will go down in history as the only policeman actually based in Bohol who passed the bar examinations. He presently holds the rank of Senior Police Officer I and is presently assigned at Camp Dagohoy this city.
He was once a cadet at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA). But obtaining a law degree at the HNU College of Law was definitely not a walk in the park for him. It was an epic battle of survival. This is based on a first person account but there's no need to go into specifics. Be that as it may, we salute him for passing the bar. It was quiet a feat.
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