The details about what is to come will have to wait. Conrad and I will start posting about the same topic from personal perspective.
I met Conrad in my last year in college in Cluj, after I had spent two summers working in the Bay Area as an intern, in a research corporation. I was fourteen when I met Gloria and Debbie through a PBC camp in my hometown – Galati. We kept in touch and, when I had the opportunity to get a work and travel visa to the US, I asked Gloria if I could stay with her. She said yes and went above and beyond with her hospitality, grace and kindness.
PBCC connected with Romania in 1988, before communism fell. These two worlds fell in love with each other, and ‘East and West kiss through every sunset and sunrise’.
While in US I enjoyed being a free spirit, and dating was not on my agenda. Even though I had not yet met him, Conrad had to come to Cluj to meet me in my own world. We fell in love with each other, with our feet on the ground and our eyes wide open. And we had fun. Conrad still makes me laugh every day.