It only requires what most of us might already have: a best friend who we may have fancied as our one true love.

After all there are no requirements of fated romantics facing glaring odds that their truest love will have to withstand.

It is perhaps because these love stories represent the most realistic of escapist romances. There is simply something about romances blossoming out of mere friendship that is so attractive to Filipinos. They only discover they were meant for each other after living through their lives, too busy with careers or failed love stories to acknowledge they like and love each other after all. Perhaps the most impressive of the lot is Jose Javier Reyes’ “Kung Ako na Lang Sana” (2003), where Aga Muhlach and Sharon Cuneta are best friends. Bayani’s “Paano na Kaya?” (2010), based on a hit song that sums up the dilemmas of being consumed by hidden affections for a best friend, where Kim Chiu quietly suffers while Gerald Anderson falls desperately out of his valued relationships. Quintos’ “Mangarap Ka” (1995) that had Claudine Barretto and Mark Anthony Fernandez play best friends-turned-lovers in a story set amidst competitions and ambitions that only the University of the Philippines can offer.

Jolina Magdangal, in fact, has made a very lucrative career in the 90s by playing exaggeratedly chirpy women who harbor secret longings for unassuming best friends, usually played by erstwhile onscreen partner Marvin Agustin. MANILA, Philippines – It’s all been done before.

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