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HAVE SUCH A RESPECT for
her,” he says. “I call her almost close
to an angel. That’s my mom. Honest,
caring, big heart. Her strength is amaz-ing.
I always tell my dad, you went
through the revolution, but think about
what my mom went through. My dad is
brilliant. He had three PhDs by the age of
25. He spoke three languages: French, English and Farsi. So I
have a lot of respect for him. But my mom just showed me a
whole other thing.”
As the months went by with no word about Fred, sugges-tions
came that it was time to move on.
“Someone said I should get remarried,” she says. “I just
laughed and I said no. You have one heart that you give to
somebody.”
She never truly gave up hope that Fred was alive.
“Every night I was dreaming of him,” she says. “In my
dreams he was okay. And I believed my dream.”
And then came his phone call. The memory of it brings tears.
“Life, sometimes you have the happiness,” she says. “And so
he came to Fayetteville, Arkansas. He said, ‘What is this? It’s
such a small airport.’ I said, ‘Whatever it is, it is all paradise.’”
REUNITED
The family was together again. But they faced the same
problems — no income, threats of deportation.
“I was ready to do anything. Trust me,” Fred says. “I was ready
to go to Walmart to be a cashier. I was lucky in my life. I was
born into a family that had money. I went to good schools. They
took everything. But this was the happiest moment of my life,
because I gained my freedom. But more than ever, I was deter-mined
to build my life again from nothing.”
Contacts in the diplomatic world helped remove the
specter of deportation. Contacts in the business world led
to a temporary job in France to help establish a factory for a
Houston-based company. He was offered the chance to stay
and run the business, but the family vetoed the idea. America
was the land of opportunity. Who would want to leave?
A friend called Fred and asked him to come work in his
Oriental rug business in New York. Fred learned the business
and became a partner. Pat learned restoration and repair.
Pat’s youngest brother, Karman, in his surgical residency,
and then her oldest brother, Hormoze Goudarzi, a surgeon,
had made their way to Wilmington. Her parents followed.
When Pat received news that her father was terminally ill
with colon cancer, she wanted to care for her ailing parents.
The Nasseris joined the others on the North Carolina coast,
opening their rug gallery in 1988.
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