A Glimmer Of Hope
Only in 1987 did Nadia get her first glimmer of hope to escape her suffocating reality. While at a party, she met an intriguing character by the name of Constantin Panait. Panait claimed to have become a US citizen after defecting from Romania to the United States. Nadia did not yet what kind of impact Panait was to have on her life.
A Glimmer Of Hope
One Opportunity
Nadia wrote in her memoir about Panait he seemed like “the real deal. He wasn’t bluffing. There were six other Romanians who planned to trust him with their lives”. It was an extremely risky business, to attempt to escape from Romania. In 1989, mostly by foot and at night, they escaped through Hungry, and then Austria, then flying through Canada before finally arriving in America. Nadia wasn’t to know, but just a few weeks after they arrived in the US, the Romanian government collapsed with the Revolution.
One Opportunity
