Cristina nehring biography books

She was a globetrotter, a bohemian, a romantic, a writer, a compulsive risk-taker, a contrarian. Cristina Nehring did not want a child—least of all, a “special” child, a child considered 90% handicapped by the French state where the two of them presently reside.

But after a wildfire love affair with a gorgeous, street-wise, articulate, under-educated and impecunious Greek waiter she met while on a travel assignment on the island of Crete, she found herself accidentally pregnant. Her Greek lover was gung-ho for the birth; Cristina was not.

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But after much deliberation—and many appeals from her near and dear ones not  to give birth under these precarious circumstances—she decided to play the cards she’d been dealt: she decided to have the baby, WTF.

But lo and behold : the baby—born in Paris—turned out to have Down Syndrome in a particularly intense form.

Her father split.

But the miracle? Cristina learned everything precious she knows from this small disabled