Steve Pieczenik - TEODORA: A Voyage of Survival, Living and Love by Steve R. Pieczenik
Aired: 2016-02-17
Duration: 02:08

[00:00:00]  Teodora was a woman who used her charm, her diamonds, and her intellect to escape the horrors of war.
[00:00:06]  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.
[00:00:22]  Teodora was a woman who used her charm, her diamonds, and her intellect to escape the horrors of war.
[00:00:26]  During her journey, she fell in love, divorced, married, and bore two sons.
[00:00:31]  Theodora survived against the odds and made a home for herself and her family in the country she loved, America.
[00:00:40]  Theodora looked over the balcony of her suite on the eighth floor of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba.
[00:00:54]  She could hardly believe the magnificent vista that she was viewing.
[00:00:59]  Beneath her were sun-tanned bodies of beautiful American women and men.
[00:01:03]  She could not help staring at them.
[00:01:06]  They looked so healthy and free.
[00:01:08]  Free was the word that stuck in her mind.
[00:01:17]  Somehow she could smell and taste the texture of freedom as it came up the eighth floors of the luxurious elegant Hotel Nacional.
[00:01:40]  There were three truisms about Teodora.
[00:01:43]  She loved her two sons, she had loved her husband, Saul, and she adored America the Beautiful.
[00:01:49]  She represented the only things that were worth living for, freedom and love.
[00:02:03]  For that, survival was the only way to lead a life of a wandering refugee.