This time it was an old gypsy woman with no teeth, who was deaf, who spoke quite loudly and was rather rudely insisting that any true believer in the Lord would not deny her something to eat.
The child assumed that this was the cart of a gipsy, and his dread of those wanderers reached but to that mild pitch which titillates rather than pains.
Her autobiography We Live in Seclusion published in 1988 and a film made about her drew international attention to the plight of the Roma in the past and present.
Then it was on to the Romanian Embassy. The issue here: housing, specifically, for the ethnic Roma minority, hundreds of whom have faced forced evictions.