![]() Meanwhile, Tito Maning actually tried to help Jun despite their strained relationship. However, they later discover that Jun had left Reyna a year before his death and was using and selling drugs. At the start of the novel, Jay and Grace believe that this account is why Jun was murdered and that Tito Maning had something to do with his death. Around the same time, Jun began an Instagram account to share photos of the drug war’s victims, which would have been hugely subversive. He and Reyna then went to live together in the slums. ![]() Jun went to stay at Tita Chato’s house, where he fell in love with Reyna, a trafficking victim that Tita Chato’s organization was helping. At some point, Tito Maning found marijuana in Jun’s room and kicked him out of the house. He believed that the church wasn’t doing enough to help people in poverty and that the Philippine drug war was harming more than it was helping. Jun often expressed frustration with the hypocrisy of others, especially his police chief father, the government, and the Catholic church. ![]() He and Jay frequently wrote letters to one another when they were young, and Jay notes that Jun was one of very few people he could really talk to. ![]() Jun was a deeply intelligent and thoughtful person. He was shot and killed by a vigilante prior to the start of the novel. Jun is Jay Reguero’s Filipino cousin, Tito Maning and Tita Ami’s estranged son, and Grace and Angel’s brother. ![]()
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