Viața bate filmul - life beats movie, as us Romanians would say.

Well, I’m Romanian & my country was like North Korea from 1947 to 1989. My great grandma (now 84 years old) was born and raised in a Dobrujan village - big, poor, farmer family. She dance & sang her way to Bucharest, where she met this man much older than her, high up in the party, wealthy, and became his long term mistress. So I’d do it like her, I’d network.