Ann Marie Cini

Maria Calleja, who is currently working in Brussels, recalls a fellow university student who died tragically following a birthday party. From Maria in Brussels:

Today is a very special day, (if I can call it so!) not only because it is St Paul's Day, a remembrance Day of when St. Paul was shipwrecked in Malta on his way to Rome but it is also a day where many people in Malta remember a young, gentle, innocent girl called Ann Marie Cini that left us today six years Ago.

On the night of the 9th February 1999, I was at an 18th Birthday Party of Mark Camilleri. Now, like in many countries, 18th Birthday Parties are very big. The age of 18 implies that now you are a grown up, you can get your driver's license, you started your university life... and started being more independent! These are the dreams and visions that most university students have at the age of 18!

Ann Marie had just started her dentistry course, and of course, she excelled in everything from the minute she set foot into the lecture theatre at the University of Malta. Ann Marie was also there for Mark's 18th birthday party! She looked so radiant, she had just washed her hair and it was pulled back nicely... I remember she was wearing a kind of Polo Neck, and If I'm not mistaken it was red, not sure, but definitely was a bright colour!....


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