Her yaya (nanny ), Tarcella Cerbules, or “Nanay,” as Wanna’s family called her, helped the young girl develop a sense of empathy. “It was a lot of luxury and a lot of feeling guilty of how much I had and how little everyone else had,” Wanna said. While her car stopped in traffic while crossing Mckinley Road, children her age knocked on her windows, begging for a few centavos. Dressed in fancy clothes, Wanna was chauffeured daily in a stretch limo from the gate of North Forbes Park to her school in South Forbes. Wanna loved Wonder Woman so when Lynda Carter stopped in Manila, Wanna found herself in the star’s hotel room getting an autograph, arranged on her father’s orders. General Ver, often tied up in the presidential palace, redeemed his absences with presents. Though suspected and later acquitted of the assassination of the anti-Marcos politician Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., he was in command of the armed forces during Martial Law, when the military was involved in multiple human rights abuses, including torture and forced disappearances. Wanna’s father was Marcos’ armed forces chief of staff and head of the National Intelligence and Security Authority (NISA). Wanna was not allowed to join a school camping trip either, so the school camped in her garden, in two army tents set up by soldiers. When Wanna was forbidden, for safety reasons, from joining her third-grade classmates at a movie theater to watch Bambi, General Ver’s soldiers fetched her a baby deer from Baguio.
As the youngest daughter of General Fabian Ver, Ferdinand Marcos’ most trusted ally and loyal military officer and close childhood friend, Wanna was kept under close watch by security guards.
MANILA, Philippines – Wanna Ver spent her early childhood in a lavish Forbes Park mansion flanked by foreign diplomats’ homes.
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