Photo: Sebastian Willnow
Replacement mother: After the accidental death of sister and brother in law Romy Hinz (41) makes incredible things
How people in need grow out of themselves - the example of Romy Hinz shows it. From one second to the next, she took responsibility for a whole family!
The 41-year-old had late work in the kitchen of the fast food restaurant in the motorway service area when she learned of her sister's terrible accident . Ambulances with blue lights raced to the clinic, Romy chasing after them. In the emergency room, she learned that three nephews and nieces had only been abraded in a collision with an off-track UPS car; her sister, 42, and her brother-in-law, 47, however, were dead instantly.
"I could not believe it, " Romy recalls on November 29, 2013. "I've been waiting for the two of them to arrive." She finally realized that no one was coming. That her eight nieces and nephews had lost mother and father. And that she, Romy, from now on had to be there for her as a surrogate mother.
"I did not wonder for a moment how to do that, " she says. "I just knew: I have to do it."
Since then, the brave woman tries everything, the eight children and teenagers at least a piece
To return happiness. Bring Christoph (6) and Paul (4) to the nursery in the morning before the shift, go to work, because the money has to come from somewhere, pick up the little ones again, go with them to the playground, buy one, cook for the whole Family.
She also drives Tobias to the apprenticeship with a landscape gardener in Plauen and Diana to the vocational school, feeds the five cats, regulates the official things and has for the big ones, such as the twins Tobias and Sebastian (both 18), always an open ear.
At night, when the little ones roll restlessly in their sleep or cry for Mom or Dad, she gets up, hugs her. "We have to stick together now, " she told the children in November. "And the big boys help me scary."
But the forces are not infinite, the worries are great. The late André Kipsch had wanted to renovate the dilapidated house in Pottiga (Thuringia) himself: The roof has to be covered, the electrical system renewed, it moves through the windows, the walls are clammy. "We have to do it on our own, somehow, " says Romy.
She does so much, sticks plaster on bloody kids knee, strokes tears away. Only the biggest wound can not heal her: "The children miss their parents, " she says and looks sadly at the
Photos by Heike and André on the living room wall. "They know that they are in heaven, but they ask: Why are not they coming down again?"
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