A search for independence and a career with the federal government led
me on a journey that far surpassed any expectations. I was twenty-one when I met Soviet KGB
defector Sergei Kourdakov at my office in Washington D.C. The moment we met, the immediate heated
attraction surprised us both. ''Even you could be spy,'' he whispered. How quickly I learned that love makes its own
choices. A Rose for Sergei chronicles my real-life relationship with Sergei
Kourdakov—a man who gave up everything for freedom.
Sergei defected from the USSR in 1971, a year before we met. One of his jobs with the Soviet Police was to
break up meetings of Christian “believers.”
When he came to realize how wrong that was he planned his escape. He barely survived the leap from the Soviet
trawler Elagin and his treacherous
swim toward freedom in Canada. It was nothing
short of a miracle. (See September 28, 2015 post – The Nurse’s Diary)
There were times when Sergei and I were together that I felt like we
were in a movie. It didn’t seem real…Sergei
was always looking over his shoulder, watching for “them.” Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I
would meet, let alone date, a KGB defector.
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