Rita Wilson
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He escaped a labor camp.
He got on a freighter ship to get a job so he could come to America.
He jumped ship when he got to America.
He got a job as a bar back in New York and worked his way up to being a bartender.
And he supported a family.
He bought a house.
He never had debt in his life.
He and my mom were married for 59 years, and they were an incredible couple and incredible parents.
And I knew that in my heart, but my own insecurities that time, I really failed to honor my father in the way that he should have been honored.
At that time.
Fine, I was 23 years old, but still old enough to know better and to really value what he had accomplished and what he had sacrificed in order to have a life of freedom in America and to escape from communism.
And he was such an incredible person.
So that, she...
Taught me an enormous lesson.
And I was able to have my dad for so many years.
So, yeah.
How moving.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
And I think there's a lesson there for so many of us who take...
our families for granted because that's all we've ever known.