Feb. 17, 2016 - Steve Pieczenik
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| Teodora was a woman who used her charm, her diamonds, and her intellect to escape the horrors of war. | |
| She wilded her way through Europe, and in the port of Lisbon, she boarded a ship that took her to a new life in America, by way of Cuba. | |
| Teodora was a woman who used her charm, her diamonds, and her intellect to escape the horrors of war. | |
| During her journey, she fell in love, divorced, married, and bore two sons. | |
| Theodora survived against the odds and made a home for herself and her family in the country she loved, America. | |
| Theodora looked over the balcony of her suite on the eighth floor of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba. | |
| She could hardly believe the magnificent vista that she was viewing. | |
| Beneath her were sun-tanned bodies of beautiful American women and men. | |
| She could not help staring at them. | |
| They looked so healthy and free. | |
| Free was the word that stuck in her mind. | |
| Somehow she could smell and taste the texture of freedom as it came up the eighth floors of the luxurious elegant Hotel Nacional. | |
| There were three truisms about Teodora. | |
| She loved her two sons, she had loved her husband, Saul, and she adored America the Beautiful. | |
| She represented the only things that were worth living for, freedom and love. | |
| For that, survival was the only way to lead a life of a wandering refugee. |
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