Like in The Only House, my father died when I was about seven months old. "We first lived in Delhi, a small town in tobacco country in southern Ontario. Everyone was ready, and off we came to Canada. of External Affairs that put pressure the government, they gave my mother a one day exit visa which was issued the day I was born. Finally, when my mother was pregnant with me, and with, I believe, the help of the Canadian Dept. Over a two year period, he went back and forth between Canada and Croatia. They got married, but he still couldn't get her out. He met my mother, and they fell in love, but he couldn't get her out of the country. Because no one in the family turned communist, they were constantly picked on by the government. "It was communist Yugoslavia in those days, and my mother's family were landowners. Although Teresa was born on October 13, 1955, in Zagreb, then Yugoslavia, now Croatia, she left the country on the very day she was born.
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