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As they have done every June 25 since 2018, the Golden Triplets remembered with a moving message to Geñi, María Eugenia’s first-born daughter. The young woman died on that fateful day as a result of breast cancer that spread throughout her body. “We will be together now,” the sisters wrote, with the aim of keeping his memory alive, on their Instagram account.
“Six years without you, Geñi. “We miss you more and more,” begins the brief text that the famous artists shared on their Instagram account. “Time doesn’t pass, but we find you every day in Cesitar and Cala. That gives us peace to continue. We will be together,” they completed, referring to the children of the deceased artist. María Eugenia, María Emilia and María Laura Fernández Rousse completed the post with a green heart, a star and a photo of Geñi, where she is seen smiling while she poses for the camera.
When she died, Geñi was 34 years old and had been diagnosed with breast cancer some time ago. Despite the treatments, the disease took over other parts of his body: at the same time three more tumors were detected in his head. The young woman spent her last days hospitalized in the German Hospital.
As for her personal life, Geñi’s passion for art was awakened from a very young age. After studying and achieving a degree in Visual Arts at the University of the Argentine Social Museum, she married architect César Bustos, gave birth to César, her first child, and moved to Dubai. “I wanted to accompany my husband in a job proposal that was offered to him and little by little we adapted. It is a multicultural place, everyone is expatriates and in that sense, you feel like one more. You are not ‘the foreigner,’” she revealed in 2011 in an interview she gave to the magazine Hello!
After three years in the United Arab Emirates, the Bustos family settled back in Buenos Aires, where Cala, the couple’s second daughter, was born. From that moment on, in addition to exhibiting on several occasions, Geñi dedicated himself to teaching.
Six months after the family tragedy, in an interview with LA NACIÓN, María Eugenia spoke of the pain of losing her firstborn. “It was a shock for Laura, Pilar and Nano (Geñi’s siblings), very hard. Besides, I never know if the situation with my grandchildren does me good or bad. It does me good for them, but on the other hand I can’t stop remembering and missing Geñi,” she said.
“It’s like a dagger, a fifty-fifty. And the same thing happens to them. That’s why it’s good to share it with my family. My sisters understand me, but what I am going through I only share with my family, we have the same feeling. We already look at each other and we know the moment we are going through, what the pain is like, what the sadness is like,” she concluded.
Over time, María Eugenia processed the pain. “There are times when I am fine and other times when I have my downs, but I try to distract myself a little,” she said during a radio talk with Fernanda Iglesias in This is not Hollywood in 2021. At that time, she was about to become a grandmother for the third time: her daughter Pilar, the youngest, was pregnant.
“The emotion is double, because there are strong feelings too. One thinks how Geñi would have enjoyed what is happening, how much Pilar misses her and many other things. “They are mixed feelings, things that move me a lot, but all for the better,” she reflected at the time. “I have to continue being well because I have two grandchildren and more are coming, I have to be well for all of them,” María Eugenia completed.
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