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In February 2025, Carlos Abrahams sat in his Charlotte living room and laughed about the day doctors told him and his wife, Ronjera, that they weren\u2019t expecting three babies after all.<\/p>\n

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They were expecting four<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, we were scared every appointment,\u201d he said during a lengthy conversation with The Charlotte Observer<\/a> in the family\u2019s home. Then he laughed when he added, \u201cIt was like, \u2018They better not find anymore.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with his wife Ronjera and their large collection of children, Carlos \u2014 the owner of Crav\u2019n Caribbean<\/a>, a Jamaican restaurant and food truck business in west Charlotte \u2014 would come to be known as the father at the center of one of the region\u2019s most extraordinary family stories.<\/p>\n

As the family navigated the first year and a half of life as parents of seven, they built a following of more than 1 million across their social-media channels.<\/p>\n

Then, last weekend, Ronjera shared devastating news<\/a> on their channels: Carlos had died.<\/p>\n

He was 35.<\/p>\n

By all accounts, he was the Abrahams family\u2019s rock: calm, funny and practical, even when confronted with circumstances that would overwhelm most people.<\/p>\n

Carlos and Ronjera were already raising three sons when they learned in the summer of 2024 that they were expecting quadruplets \u2014 identical twin boys and identical twin girls. The spontaneous pregnancy was so rare that even some medical professionals struggled to explain its odds.<\/p>\n

When Ronjera learned there was a fourth baby and broke down in tears, worried about what lay ahead, she remembered looking at her husband and asking a simple question.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we gonna do?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gonna take care of \u2018em,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

The answer reflected the role he seemed to embrace throughout his life.<\/p>\n

Born in Jamaica and raised in Delaware, Abrahams moved to the United States as a child. He met Ronjera as a teenager after spotting her at a mall and working up the courage to introduce himself. They married in 2010 while he was training with the Marine Corps at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri \u2014 in a bar, of all places, after a courthouse wedding fell through because they arrived too late.<\/p>\n

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It was an unconventional beginning that proved fitting.<\/p>\n

The couple\u2019s first child arrived sooner than planned. Military service took them to eastern North Carolina. Business opportunities kept them there for years. Eventually they settled in Charlotte, where Carlos built his restaurant and helped raise a growing family.<\/p>\n

He often joked that he had expected a much smaller household.<\/p>\n

Growing up with five brothers, Carlos once said he originally wanted only one child of his own: \u201cI thought the only way we\u2019d be able to spoil them was to just have one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Instead, he and Ronjera found themselves juggling dozens of bottles a day, mountains of diapers, sleepless nights and the challenge of raising seven children \u2014 Carlos Jr., Christian, Cameron, Cayden, Carter, Ariyah and Aniyah \u2014 without the benefit of having extended family nearby.<\/p>\n

But when asked during that the family\u2019s interview with the Observer about the financial pressures of suddenly more than doubling the size of his family on Dec. 1, 2024, he acknowledged the challenges but quickly shifted the conversation toward solutions.<\/p>\n

That was just who Carlos was, Ronjera said: a provider, a problem-solver, a husband devoted to his wife and a father devoted to his children. When circumstances changed, he adjusted. When obstacles appeared, he looked for ways around or through them.<\/p>\n

And above all else, when he took credit for that kind of mentality, he always shared it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve always been the ones,\u201d Carlos said, smiling at Ronjera, \u201cthat … we\u2019re gonna figure it out no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

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