Tanya Heaslip

And he said, and you will not ultimately stay here because you're too young and you'll want to get back to law one day.

There's a lot of truth in what he says.

A lot of the people who did flee Prague, Czechoslovakia after the 68 invasion were heartbroken by it.

There were many who ended up in Canada, the United States, and plenty who ended up here.

who couldn't quite let go but couldn't return either.

And many of them told me they lived their lives feeling like they were in exile.

Yes, that grief of a foot in both camps, they didn't ever belong in either place.

And they felt embittered too.

Yeah, yeah.

So there was probably some wisdom in what Carol told you.

They'd lost who they were.

They'd lost their titles, their rights, their skill sets.

And Cutter was very aware of that.

He was incredibly wise.

And I was so, honestly, so naive.

I really thought absolutely love could conquer all, that my love of Prague and of him and that life would be enough.

And he'd lived long enough and seen enough.

He'd seen so much sadness.

He'd seen so much loss.

And he'd seen how people had suffered.