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- Rizal was 16 years old when one Sunday in 1887, he paid visit to his maternal grandmother in Trozo, Manila and there met, among others, Segunda Katigbak, a two-year-younger-than-him ‘colegiala’.
- Jose, I would like to introduce my sister, Segunda. Segunda, this is my dear friend Jose.
- Thank you, It's very nice to meet you as well.
- Hi, nice to meet you!
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- my first love! My virgin heart will always mourn the reckless step it took on the flower-decked abyss. I am glad to know you.
- Thank you, Jose and it is good to meet you
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- Leonor “Orang” Valenzuela, Rizal’s second object Leonor “Orang” Valenzuela, Rizal’s second object of affection, is literally the girl-next-door. They met when Rizal was a sophomore medical student at the University of Santo Tomas, during which time he also lived at Doña Concha Leyva’s boarding house in Intramuros, Manila. Orang, who was then 14 years old, was his neighbor.
- I have sent you private and secret love letters, which he wrote using invisible ink made with water and salt
- Thank you, Rizal. I appreciate that. but you are going to Spain and hope to take care of yourself.
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- Mariano Katigbak, Segunda’s brother and Rizal’s classmate who was also in the house, probably had no idea that his friend had been experiencing “a love at first sight” being bewitched by his alluring sister.
- Leanor Rivera and Jose Rizal lived the tragedies of Shakespeare’s poems.They met when Rizal was 18 and Leonor was 13, at the boarding house of Rizal’s uncle in Intramuros, Manila. Leonor was Rizal’s second cousin. Leanor Rivera and Jose Rizal lived the tragedies of Shakespeare’s poems.
- I am sorry but i can't obey my parents Jose. Good bye
- I really wanted you Leanor
- It was a perfect love story in the beginning: he, the intelligent charmer, and she, the beautiful student who had a beautiful singing voice and was a talented piano player. Soon, they fell in love. But as tragic love stories go, they were besieged by obstacles. Leonor’s parents highly disapproved of their relationship
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- The two became very close. However, Segunda was already engaged to be married to a man who lived in her town, and Rizal had to stop pursuing her.
- Consuelo Ortega Y Rey was the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga Y Rey, who was Mayor of Manila when Maria dela Torre was the governor. While Rizal was in Madrid, he would hang out at Don Pablo’s house, which became a place where Filipino students would often get together. Through one of these gatherings, Rizal met Consuelo.
- I am attracted to you Consuelo, but I am still engaged with Leanor.
- then why are you telling me this? go and see Leonor
- but, you know I right you a poem entitled, “A La Señorita C.O.y.P.”
- In the end, Consuelo got engaged to Rizal’s friend, Eduardo de Lete. It is said that Eduardo’s love for Consuelo was also the reason Rizal didn’t pursue the mestiza. Or maybe, in modern parlance, theirs was a classic case of a rebound fling.
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- In many of his diary entries, Rizal wrote about how he was charmed by Japan’s beauty, cleanliness, and peace and order. But if there was one thing that almost kept him in the country where cherry blossoms bloom most beautiful, it was a woman named Seiko Usui, affectionately called O-Sei-San.
- Initially wanting to follow, Rizal at the last minute turned his horse around and decided to ride home instead. That incident markedthe end of everythingbetweenthe young lovers.
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