You did it even more so, because you were married, you were a rock star athlete out of California, you were at the University of California Berkeley. And to be married and to take that risk, sort of walking away from what was just the ideal life to go off to Ethiopia must have been an incredible pull.
The speaker reflects on the sacrifices made by an individual who left a successful life to serve in Ethiopia.
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