‘The day I die, I will die with half a smile on my face because I will run into my daughters’: Carlos Luis Andrade’s powerful confession in memory of his daughters Connie and Cayetana

This Tuesday communicator Gaby Diaz celebrates 40 years of life. The celebration started with the family, continued in the gym and shared in the morning In contact, whose manager she is.

It is a special birthday for her as a woman, since at the age of 40 she feels like a fulfilled woman who knew how to embrace pain with the strength of her family and God. “As a family you can overcome everything… as a family you can keep smiling, defeating yourself, walking”Gaby said.

This is how, in the midst of his celebration, he fondly recalled Connie and Cayetanadaughters she had with her husband Carlos Luis Andrade, and that they died.

The Díaz Andrade family opened their hearts to talk about when their daughter Connie died on November 8, 2013, just days after she was born. The girl was in the hospital for ten days because of heart problems.

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Andrade said that around that time he was traveling from Guayaquil to Quito every morning to film the program he hosted. “Work took me out of the reality I didn’t want to live. So I got to work, work gave me the strength to be the Superman of my family.”he admitted.

So he spent every night in Guayaquil with his daughter and wife in the hospital. “I told my wife that she is in the hospital, go to bed and sleep. I stayed to sleep in the hospital with my daughter, the next day I went there again and one day Gaby told me ‘stay in Quito, rest, and I didn’t want to stay in Quito’. He remembered that early morning when he first heard the song that marked them for life: knowing you by Cesar Banana.

This song resurfaced on November 19, 2013, the day after his daughter Connie’s funeral, when Andrade sang it on his guitar in Quito with his daughter and wife. Since then, this song has meant something very special.

Andrade and Díaz are confident that they will be reunited with their daughters the day they are no longer here. “For me, the day I die, I’ll die with half a smile on my face because I’ll run into my daughters, with my uncle, with my grandfather and with all the people I love; and the second part is going to be sad because I’m going to leave a lot of people I love behind,” Andrade said.

Four months after this painful departure, Cayetana arrived, but died before the end of the pregnancy. Díaz Andrade are currently the parents of Polly and Joaquín.