When I finished reading the book by Gianna Costantini, a phrase from Tolstoy came to mind that I immediately went to look for: "The only truly sacred temple is the world of men united by love". "9,300 km of umbilical cord" is in fact a trip around the world to give life to a family united by its love. There is no publisher for this book because the urge to tell and share the experience has taken over. If it is published by itself and the reader can find it on the web https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/SVSMGJNLZ9YQ2. But reading it is important not only because we share the ordeal that almost all adoptive parents are forced to live in order to "be able to be born" anyway, but also because we understand what the word "determination" really means. Gianna and her husband Giorgio wanted children and to do so they faced incredible adventures without ever giving up. And then it's good to read this book, especially in such a period, because it's one of the few stories in which love triumphs. After traveling twice (or rather 4 with the return ...) 9,300 km, because Colombia and Vietnam have the same distance from Italy, Giorgio and Gianna now have two children "born directly from the heart": Stiven, born in Yopal in the Amazon region of Casanare, a few hours' flight from Bogota and Ilaria Than, originally from Quong Nam, Vietnamese province. And this family, so different and therefore so united, presented the story of its history, in the presence of many families, equally composite and colorful, at Villa Sciarra, the historical park of Rome, increasingly a place of meeting and comparison, in which it defends the environment and culture.
But in "9,300 km of umbilical cord" there is also talk of Africa because Gianna, biologist and employee of a pharmaceutical company, is a volunteer of 'Nativo' Www.nativonlus.org, an association, to which the proceeds of the book will be donated, which helps Kenyan children especially to study. In fact, Stiven and Ilaria Than also have an African brother named Omar. "With Kenya, the procedures for adoption are endless - explains Gianna - and require staying there for 6 months, a time that we have never been able to afford". But between them remains the thread of love and energy with which this woman manages to tie everything she encounters. "Of course there is no lack of problems because it is difficult to make everyone understand how the difference is actually wealth - says Gianna - and sometimes, in the face of the stupidity of the people, your arms fall, but you have to go on. Love prevents you from surrender to prejudice. "