Evenbly, Meta A.: - Meta, who lived the story told in Brave Face, was born in 1935 to a Dutch father and a German mother and grew up in the Netherlands. When she had just turned 17 years old, she met the love of her life, Frits, who was born to Dutch parents in the Congo, but then grew up in the Netherlands. Meta raised her five children in three different countries, none of them her country of origin. She graduated cum laude with a degree in Liberal Arts from St. Thomas University in philosophy, psychology, and theology at the age of 59.