«Among many blond children I noticed one with dark hair, she was also the only one who smiled. I picked her up, she clung to my neck and that was the beginning of a great story.” Franco Di Marethe journalist who publicly revealed on Sunday that he suffers from mesotheliomaan aggressive form of cancer probably caused by exposure to asbestos in the war zones where he was sent for years, he also received a gift from the battlefields. Daughter of him, Starfish.
The Sarajevo orphanage
Franco Di Mare’s first meeting with what would become his daughter took place in the summer of 1992, in an orphanage in Sarajevo. «I went because he had been hit by a grenade – he told « L’ora solar » in 2019 – It was lucky that only two were injured». Stella was just over 10 months old when the journalist noticed her among the other little orphans and decided to put her on a Red Cross flight to Italy, and then adopt her. Di Mare told their story in the novel “Don’t ask why”, from which the Rai1 drama with Beppe Fiorello “The Angel of Sarajevo” was based in 2015. His, however, he was keen to point out to Famiglia Cristiana, was not «an act of heroism: I fell in love with a newborn baby, we chose each other a bit. I don’t feel generous, I did everything to take her away from Sarajevo but in reality I didn’t save any of her. Rather, she saved me.”
Who is Stella Di Mare
Stella Di Mare is now 32 years old, very little is known about her except that she has a degree in Economics. She is not present on her social networks, at least not with her real name, but on some occasions she has appeared together with her father. Today she is among the people who are close to Franco Di Mare during his illness, together with the other women in his life: his partner Giulia, who has been by his side for 8 years, and his sisters, Lucia and Sara.
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