Maria Agnes Montefuego was one of a set of identical twins borne by her biological mother who was on a trip to Italy at that time. Due to complications at birth, both infants didn't cry nor drew breath, and they were rushed to intensive care. Agnes’ foster father, who was the attending nurse of her mother at that time, mistakenly pronounced Agnes as dead, compelling her mother to take the other one only and leave Agnes; when her foster father discovered Agnes is still alive it was too late for the mother had already left, so he just adopted her. He didn’t divulge about this because he decided to nurture Agnes as his own child.