There are Probinsiyano addicts. And then there’s Budoy.

Twenty-four-year old Angelito Morales, more known in La Trinidad as Budoy, stays at the local police station while his mother works as a waste segregator at the strawberry fields in Betag barangay.

Sometimes, he directs traffic for cars entering the fields. But most of the time, Budoy worries about telenovela police officer Cardo Dalisay and how he is now that he can’t be seen on TV.

He frequents the police station in the hope that Cardo would pass by.

Budoy, who is a special child, was so driven by grief about the loss of Probinsiyano that he would burst into tears thinking of Cardo. One time, he was seen holding a fan sign which read: “Coco Martin, I Love You.”

Martin plays Cardo in the best-selling telenovela in ABS-CBN, which has since gone off the free airwaves after the House of Representatives decided to deny the network’s franchise.

But for Budoy, he knows who is behind the closure of Probinsiyano. He refused to do the fist sign because he said President Duterte closed ABS-CBN.

He had the card made for him by Magdalena Fokno, the manager of a nearby restaurant who then posted his picture on social media in the hope that Martin would see it.

As it turned out, Fokno’s friend, Dana Cosio-Mercado, is a good friend of actor Ronnie Lazaro, who plays a villain in the series. Budoy did not want to meet him but Lazaro talked Coco Martin into recording a message for Budoy.

Martin indeed made a special recording for Budoy, thanking him and wishing for good health.

After Budoy watched the recording, he played it again and again and talked back to the recording. Then he got overwhelmed and cried again.

With this, he got a new lease in life and became a hero in the police station. He said he will work to be a police officer someday