is, i was actually crying. and i said to him, i can t do this anymore. i want to come home. and we said, no, you made a commitment. you re a man. you gave your word. how hard was it to say that? that was really hard. it was really hard, yes. i may have hung up the phone a bit angry at him, because it wasn t the answer i wanted to get, but in retrospect, i m really glad. but zach tried to make it work, and then one night, when the teachers got together, there was someone new, another teacher just returning from a sunny vacation. there was this beautiful, tanned georgia coming back from croatia. 23-year-old georgia robinson, a recent university graduate herself from new zealand. she d been teaching ad libbing in a nearby town on the coast called noda. in october, they all went to a karaoke bar. i found out she was a huge fan of kiss, so you know, myself loving rock n roll that sparked my interest. did it seem to be the same way the other way around?
and i said, yes. of course. i had to put him out of his misery. he looked like he was going to collapse. so i was engaged and we didn t really know what we were going to do from there or where we were going to go. but we knew we were having a baby and we were going to get married. and in fact, you got married twice. yeah, we did. yeah. yes, two weddings. the first, in indiana. the second one, in new zealand. and there was a special guest at that one, two-month-old sebastian. throw that one. yes. yeah, getting real. getting some good distance. keith morrison (voiceover): after promising his mother it was never going to happen, sure enough zach and his family now live in new zealand. he works for the government. georgia, at a recruitment agency. and sebastian is busy growing up. in 2014, we brought them back to japan for the first time since it all happened. my name is georgia. oh, georgia.
massive tsunami in japan. obviously, we all freaked out, because georgia was over there. they turned on the tv and saw images from noda, the little coastal town where georgia was based. it was unrecognizable from images she had sent to us, that the buildings were destroyed. there was debris everywhere. and georgia, though they tried and tried, was unreachable. we really thought that she d gone. kind of lost hope, i guess. back in indiana that night, the news ever worse, john turned on his computer and read that last e-mail from zach. he sent it at literally two minutes before the earthquake hit and it said what greeting? birthday greeting. said what? happy birthday, love you. it said much more than that, though. dearest rockin papi, happy birthday. woo hoo, the big 5-0. the more and more time we spend apart, the more and more i
if she wasn t expecting a baby. and he said, yes. and i said, then she needs to know that. she needs you to ask her to marry you not just it be expected that i m doing the right thing. and so yeah, maybe i did push him. keith morrison (voiceover): when zach went back to japan, he was ready. or so he thought. georgia met him at the train station. as we re walking to the car, i i don t know. i just i said, i you just have to, you just have to stop. and i was like, what are you doing? it s freezing. like let s get in the car. let s go. and he said, just wait. and then all of a sudden he turned around and he s shaking but he s holding a ring box. and i got down on my knee and i just said, i love you. and i want to spend the rest of my life with you. i don t care if it s in japan or if it s in new zealand or you know, if we re in siberia. i want to spend the rest of my life with you. and you know, will you marry me?
come hell or high water i was getting into that damned town. that s where he headed, right into that hell, willing to risk his life to try to save hers. there s fires on the hill, fire on the water. but could he get there in time? i ve never loved someone the way i love georgia. here s keith morrison with swept away.