Wednesday 18 December 2013

Boryana Shehtova

Boryana Shehtova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria to a couple of parents who are actively involved in the family business of Marine School. Her father was the first school director but opted to be the liaison officer as well as representative in every Expo that the school took active participation of. Her mother was a daughter of a local jeweller and she was personally designing classic pearl earrings to the royalties in Europe and travelling with her husband both helped her meet more clients and scout for feasible places where they could possibly put up a sister school. The couple had a good tandem. The exceptional marketing abilities of the wife complemented the articulate and serious personality of the husband.



They were already in their early forties when they married and it wasn’t until their third year when a son was born to them. Three miscarriages were had before Boryana was born and her pregnancy was at high-risk due to her age. Her mother almost lost her life during delivery and went into a coma for 5 months for the reason of some childbirth complications. Boryana on the other hand was a healthy baby who, despite not having been nursed by her own mother, grew up healthy and strong. Her mother held her for the first time when she was already 5 months old and it took her a whole year before she fully regained her health and personally attended to her daughter. When she was already 6 years old and attended school, her father decided to resign from being actively involved in the academe and decided to do travelling functions for the school. Her mother felt she was more needed by her husband for his travels than her children who were well looked after by the grandparents and since the second son of the patriarchal family decided to fill in the position as the school director, she and her husband travelled for almost a decade until that fateful accident that claimed their lives.

Boryana was only 15 when she and her brother became orphans. She was a strong girl who is brave to accept loss and separation. She handled the demise far better than her brother who had to undergo counselling to help him process his feelings and finally accept and cope with the passing.

Initially they lived with their grandparents who have become more protective of the siblings as they had been. The second eldest son, their uncle whom they were later asked to live with, was the closest brother of their late father. His wife who was longing to have a daughter of their own but could not have another pregnancy had to begged the old couple for the custody of the children. The old Shehtovas knew the siblings will be dislocated again in the event of their death and realized they would be better off being raised by their uncle and aunt together with the three cousins whom they were also cosy with, decided to entrust them to the family. Love and care were never deprived to the siblings and they grew up to be decent and pleasant individuals.

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