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...Sonia Maino never wanted anything to do with politics. She was born in the small village of Orbassano in northern Italy, and at 19 met 21-year-old Rajiv Gandhi in 1965 at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England, where they both were undergraduates. "For him, there was never anybody else," says a family friend. "For her, too." The couple married in 1968 in New Delhi. Rajiv became a pilot for Indian Airlines and Sonia threw herself into running the house for her Prime Minister mother-in-law Indira, managing the servants and organizing receptions under the lemon trees behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Burden | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

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