Ethan Hawke
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And she looked around and I remember her saying that if an accident happened today, when they do happen, and I died, I would be extremely disappointed in myself.
She was probably, I don't know, 46 or something when she said this, younger than I am now.
And she said, I don't want to be disappointed in my life.
So she joined the Peace Corps, which she wasn't all that impressed with.
But they sent her to Romania.
And she fell in love with Romania.
And she fell in love with the people there.
And she got obsessed with the racism against the gypsy culture, the Roma culture, I'm supposed to call it.
It reminded her a lot of growing up here in the 60s and the racism she saw as a young girl.
And she just decided to do something about it.
She spent 25 years there and she got thousands of kids into school who wouldn't have gone to school.
She just recently retired back to Fort Worth.
And she's a different woman than the woman I grew up with, which is โ
I think a remarkable story.
I love both the women, the woman now and the woman I grew up with.
I don't want to paint some portrait that she was miserable.
She just was miserable at work.
She was not a miserable person to be with.