In an interview granted to cotidianul.ro , Dana Maria Dezotell recounts her journey in the "Promised Land", which began with a tragedy and continued with remarkable performances in a field where few succeed.
Reporter: Let's start with your arrival in this country. 12 years ago, you married an American citizen, a few months later you became pregnant with your first child, but fate was cruel to your new family after your husband lost his life in a tragic car accident . She didn't even get to see her son and you were left alone, two months pregnant, without money, without a stable home and without a secure job. How did you manage to get over this terrible moment in your life?
Dana Maria Dezotell:That's right, on March 21, 2001, I got married in Romania to Lyman, my husband. It was a quick marriage, after a year or so of mutual groping. I moved to the state of Vermont where he lived. As you rightly said, eight months after their marriage, he died in a car accident on his way to work at IBM. Three people died in that accident, all colleagues. They were commuting together on that sad day of November 29, 2001. While Lyman was sleeping in the back seat, he was hit by an oncoming car. The next day I would have had my first medical check-up, to find out if I was pregnant. I knew I was, but I had to get under the care of a doctor. In September 2001 I had started my first job in America, teaching assistant at a high school where I was living at the time. God helped me survive hunger and the lack of my family. Looking back, I think I would have chosen the same, to stay and fight for my child. I wanted him to know why he didn't have a father. This tragedy lasted about 12 years, until I found out why my husband died.
What came after? How did you face, as a widow with a newborn child, this downright desperate situation? I think that even the most powerful man in the world would have been devastated after such a tragedy, especially since you were in a foreign country and could not rely on the support of your family, located in Romania?
In short, the ambition not to be beaten. The details are in the book I'm writing now.