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BAROTAC NUEVO, Iloilo — Long before her name appeared on the national list of topnotchers, 23-year-old Christel J. Surita had already learned how to walk carefully through muddy roads she could barely see. In Sitio Safa, Barangay Patlad in Dumangas, Iloilo, Christel’s childhood was simple, rural, and deeply familiar. She grew up among rice fields,