Petina, Zimbabwe
International trade lawyer, writer
Single
Mother of an 11-year-old boy
“If you’re an international trade lawyer, there’s only one place to be and that’s Geneva. We are an unusual family in that we all live in different countries: our son attends a boarding school in Scotland, I’m in Geneva and his dad is in Zimbabwe. I sometimes think I became an accidental mother.
I was never a traditional woman in the sense that I wanted marriage and children and a white picket fence. Motherhood is something that happened to me and I’m very happy for it. I feel my son has completely changed my life in a way that being a lawyer or a writer hadn’t. He is the one person I can truly be myself with. It’s unconditional.”
Geneva, March 2015
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![Petina, Zimbabwe <br />
<br />
International trade lawyer, writer<br />
Single <br />
Mother of an 11-year-old boy<br />
<br />
“If you’re an international trade lawyer, there’s only one place to be and that’s Geneva. We are an unusual family in that we all live in different countries: our son attends a boarding school in Scotland, I’m in Geneva and his dad is in Zimbabwe. I sometimes think I became an accidental mother. <br />
I was never a traditional woman in the sense that I wanted marriage and children and a white picket fence. Motherhood is something that happened to me and I’m very happy for it. I feel my son has completely changed my life in a way that being a lawyer or a writer hadn’t. He is the one person I can truly be myself with. It’s unconditional.”<br />
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Geneva, March 2015](https://www.marinacavazza.com/img-get2/I00008gbiGyqYC1w/fit=1000x750/Petina.jpg)
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