Name: The Question I Almost Didn't Ask And How It Changed My Life | Rita Wilson | TEDxNashvilleWomen
Uploaded: 2021-08-24T02:23:11.000Z
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Transcriber: Hiroko Kawano Reviewer: Tanya Cushman

This is very exciting - very, very exciting.

I'm here to ask you guys a very specific question:

Have you ever asked yourself that question, what do I want?

I was born and raised in Hollywood, California.

It's where my parents moved to after they met in New York in the '50s.

and while he was there, one day, in passing,

he sees that there are 12 seltzer bottles sitting on the back of a truck.

other than probably he wanted to give them to his father, who had a little inn.

But he was caught, and the Bulgarian Army decided to make an example out of him.

And so they sentenced him to three years and four months in jail,

He got out early, at three years, for good behavior.

He decided to stay in Plovdiv, the town where the jail was,

and he eventually met a young woman, and they got married.

and while she was giving birth, she died in labor.

but my brother Emil died four months later.

And so he thought, "I want to go to America."

Not so easy to do - you can't just leave a communist country.

So he tried to escape, and they caught him.

And they put him into a forced labor camp.

While he was in this forced labor camp, he saw a pattern starting to develop.

He was a coal miner, and he was working during the days,

but he noticed that at night these trains would come in,

and these trains blocked a certain visual point where the guards were.

And he became friends with the guard, and he said to this guard,

bribing him with a pack of cigarettes or a carton of cigarettes:

"Listen, do you think I can get on the night shift?

He starts looking at all of the trains and when they come in,

And one night, on the night shift, at about 1:30 in the morning,

he says to the other people and the guards,

Do you think I can go down and get some firewood for the fire?"

And they said, "I think that's a good idea."

And he said, "Can I bring my friend Richard with me

They timed it perfectly, the trains came up,

and they ran, and they ran, and they ran,

And by the time they realized that they were gone,

well, my dad did, and he was the stevedore,

the guy that shoveled the coal on the boat.

so he decided to ask if he could bring his friend Richard with them,

So my dad stowed Richard away on the ship.

where they left the ship to be in America,

And that's where my parents met, in New York City,

because my dad had the courage to understand what it was that he wanted:

My mom was Greek, but she was born in America.

her family, who was doing well in America and they were all American citizens,

which was on the border of Albania and Greece,

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