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On the recordMarch 1, 2011
Certainly the pull personally, but much more important than that was the pull that Patti exerted upon me. I had an opportunity to play professional football, but turned that down to get married and to spend a 2-year honeymoon in the far western part of Ethiopia, where there was no running water, and we literally lived in a wattle, which is a mud-walled home with a corrugated tin roof and an outhouse out back. And it turned out to be the most marvelous honeymoon, and it's still going on now some almost 46 years later. So it was a beautiful opportunity for us to serve. And then the rest of what you said is a Peace Corps volunteer never leaves a life of service. We transform it into many, many ways.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California

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Garamendi reflects on his personal experiences and the lasting impact of Peace Corps service.

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