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Some stories are soft and malleable, able to be shaped immediately into what they’re supposed to be. Other stories are hard and defiant, requiring more effort and time to become what you want them to be.

Growing up in Bataan, Daniel dela Cruz showed artistic talent early with clay as his medium.

In fact, he was featured in a national magazine for it, and he has wanted to follow an artistic path.

“But I come from a family of doctors,” he told Lifestyle.

So off he went to the University of the Philippines-Diliman.

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“I failed all my chemistry classes and managed to graduate with a prelaw course.” he recalled. That would be a BA Philosophy in 1991.

“My father didn’t want me to be an artist, but I didn’t want to be a lawyer either,” said Dela Cruz.

So he uprooted himself from his family to find work in design or art, with no formal training at all.

“At the start, I was just in a factory, but the good thing is I managed to make a good c