Poetic Obituaries: Florica [Batu Ichim] was one of seven

children, raised in communist Romania. Her father was a tailor, her mother a homemaker but a strong woman who lived to 93. Florica met Dumitru at a poetry reading, the two drawn together by a love of Romanian poetry. Both were published poets.

Dumitru completed his PhD in theology and was granted permission to study in the U.S. while Florica completed an economics degree and took a job conducting bank audits.

from The Record: Ichim family matriarch dies

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