Christin was born on the 7th November 1972, in the Russian hospital in Teheran, Iran. This date also coincided with the celebrations of the Russian Revolution and it was rather hard to find a sober doctor. We always giggled about this fact.
I went to visit my little sister and it was love at first sight. Our baby years were fun. She had cute curly hair, we quarreled over who was going to be Nadia Komaneshi, played with dolls and enjoyed idyllic holidays with our parents.
In 1978 we moved to Madrid, followed by a year in Geneva, followed by our permanent move to Brighton. This is also when our brother Allen arrived on the scene. He was a real living doll for us sisters and we loved looking after him.
This was followed by Christin joining Year 2 of Cardinal Newman, where she made her longtime, devoted friends. These friendships have lasted 40 years and are a testament to the strength of the character and community of the school.
After the school years, all the friends went off on their separate journeys. For Christin, this was South Bank University followed by her first job at the Red Cross in Brighton.
This is where Christin really found her vocation in life. She loved helping others and others responded to her empathy.
She was brilliant at her job and this was not gone unnoticed. She got a call from International Red Cross in Geneva to accompany a colleague to Afghanistan as an interpreter. She jumped at the chance and it wasn’t long before her talent for negotiation and diplomacy landed her the job of Negotiator with the Taliban over the conditions within the women’s prisons. She travelled to all the hotspot in Afghanistan, and even had tea and discussions with the Taliban leaders. 
A true accomplishment and a feat to have tea with Taliban leaders as a woman. 
9/11 happened and Christin was evacuated from Afghanistan. But her practical and organizational skills coupled with her human and humane touch sent her on many other missions where she had to coordinate and set up camp for misplaced people in areas of disaster, having navigated the local psyche.
These included the earth quake in Bam, Iran in December 2003, earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004, where she was posted to Sri Lanka and Hurricane Katrina in the USA in August 2005. 
In between ICRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent) missions, Christin was busy at the British Red Cross in London, directing and implementing their vital messaging and tracing service for all displaced families around the world.
She loved her job. It gave her so much joy to bring long lost members of families who were either displaced by war or disasters around the world back together.
And this brings us to family. Christin loved her family. They were her backbone and supported her and loved her endlessly and unconditionally.
She was very proud of her family and her Armenian roots. They grounded her and made her the person she was. She always wanted to have the same solid unit for herself. 
And this is when Anthony, her long time friend from Year 2 onwards and her partner for life came unto the scene. They reconnected and sparks flew on 2007, and the rest is history. They set up home, had fun, travelled and in March 2010, welcomed their little bundle of joy, Anastasia. This was and has been the ultimate outcome of this sweet union-our beautiful Anastasia. In November 2012 Anthony proposed to Christin in New York. We were all overjoyed, especially my late grandmother. Christin's family was complete. Christin and Anthony were and are the perfect loving parents. They have the most welcoming home. There is love in the air. Christin was so content and so happy with her life. She really loved life. She really loved Anthony and Anastasia. She really loved her Family and she really loved her friends.

We will all miss her. I will miss her after 51 years. No more silly chit chats. But her legacy will live on in all of us and her love will be with us, around us and in our hearts forever.
Rest in peace little sister. Farewell on earth, but never in our minds and hearts.