“… When Spaniard Fernando Carnerero found his Kiwi ex-girlfriend on Facebook this year he was unsure what to expect.
He certainly could not have imagined he would be told he had a son in New Zealand.
Carnerero, 33, who is from Malaga, had not spoken to Aroha Williams-Pascoe, 31, since going home after a short stint as an exchange student in Christchurch when he was 18.
After stumbling across Williams-Pascoe on Facebook he was told he had a son, Brad Carnerero-Williams, 14.
Carnerero almost immediately left Spain to be near his boy and now lives in Shirley.
Carnerero enjoyed his earlier stay in Christchurch and had not wanted to leave.
The return to Spain meant Carnerero and Williams-Pascoe did not speak for nearly 15 years.
“It was too far away.
Telephone was very expensive in Spain and we didn’t have internet so we couldn’t have a proper relationship 25,000 kilometres away.
We lost contact,” he said.
Williams-Pascoe, 31, who lives in Motueka with her son and partner, realised a month after Carnerero left that she was pregnant.
She had been looking for Carnerero since.
“I’ve been looking for him for the past 15 years.”…”
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