Fatherhood at age 60: Ronnie Arias adopts his nephew after his sister’s death

At age 60, Ronnie Arias ’life changed. After the death of her sister Silvina, which occurred in January last year, adopted his nephew John, 19 years old.

In an open-hearted chat with Andy Kusnetzoff, host of the radio cycle street dogs (Urbana Play 104.3), Ronnie is honest about the big turnaround that gave his destiny to fatherhood of his nephew at age 60.

“He left me the best gift,” she said, referring to her sister Silvina. And explained how his death happened. “My sister Silvina, a teacher who teaches schools in poor neighborhoods, went with her 28-year-old boyfriend for the first time on vacation, as an experience of coexistence, on the southern lake, Ronnie started by explaining.

And he continued: “One morning, my sister, who was beautiful and in love, took out her cell phone to photograph the sky and broke the circuit of her brain: he was immediately brain dead. My brother -in -law, a very important doctor, called me and told me he had been hospitalized for a stroke. ”

On the train of speaking without a twist, Ronnie Arias explained that his nephew Juan, after the death of his mother Silvina, as his father was “erased”, had to choose who he would live with.

Still moved by the young man’s attitude, he said: “When we were alone, he would ask me questions ‘and now who will be my family?’. I told him ‘well, you can choose. You can go with Lola Mimi, your aunts or Pablo and me. And he said to me: ‘All I want is to be with Paul and with you‘”.

The single sentence uttered by his nephew served to inaugurate a stage as special as the unexpected in Ronnie Arias ’biography: the adoption of the 19-year-old young man and beginning to go through fatherhood.

“We had a terrible argument”

It was enough for his nephew to tell him that he wanted to be with his partner Pablo, so that Ronnie Arias could understand that something big was going to happen in his life. “We, imagine the plan to have a son, and 19 years old … -he remembers talking to him on the radio with Andy- I didn’t even talk about it with Paul, but I knew he “.

“I went black, it was very rare he admitted. Because, after all, I think I always wanted to have a child and it was not an option. Paul wanted to get married and for me, it was not an option. Speaking of coexistence, we had different ideas of what we thought it should be in the future. But now I have an heir”.

“From that day on, John said to me at lunch: “I don’t want to be his child, I want to be his niece”. And here we are, making the road … “Ronnie explained.

Far from selling the rose garden, the driver admitted: “Sometimes, it’s really hard. We had horrible arguments, because he was a 19 year old and I was a 60 year old.you need to get to know each other, but form a different love and responsibility ”.

“Now we live together, we share things, we give each other gifts and it can say that my brother La Chivi left me the best gift a person could have”, Assures Ronnie Arias.

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