\nAndrea Bocelli, one of the best-known operatic singers in the world today, sat down at the piano during a charity performance for Haiti on June 1, 2010 and started telling a \u201clittle story.\u201d He shared how a young pregnant woman went into the hospital with appendicitis.\u00a0 Doctors put ice on her stomach, and later suggested she have an abortion, since they believed the baby would be born with some disability.\u00a0 \u201cBut the young brave wife decided not to abort, and the child was born,\u201d Bocelli recounted, sitting at the piano.\u00a0 \u201cThat woman was my mother, and I was that child.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bocelli then publically thanked his mother for not ending his life.\u00a0 \u201cMaybe I\u2019m partisan, but I can say it was the right choice,\u201d the singer said.\u00a0 \u201cI hope this could encourage any mothers who sometimes find themselves in difficult situations, in those moments when life is complicated, but want to save the life of their baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bocelli was born partially blind with congenital glaucoma.\u00a0 When he was still a boy he lost his sight completely.\u00a0 Yet, at 53, he has sold more than 70 million records.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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