Today The Atlantic has a worthwhile update on its March story about John Georgelas, the highest-ranking American member of the Islamic State in Syria. It involves a documentary crew paying a visit not to the Middle East, but to Plano, where Georgelas’ now ex-wife, Tania Georgelas, is leading a life that’s a far cry from her days dreaming of jihad against the West.

Here’s Graeme Wood over at The Atlantic:

Stop me if this one is familiar: John, a Texan from a wealthy Christian family, converted to Islam as a teenager and 13 years later ascended to the high echelons of the Islamic State. In London, along the way, he married Tania, a native-born Muslim with ambitions of becoming a suicide bomber. They had four kids, and together they fantasized about becoming a family of itinerant holy warriors, a sort of Islamic version of the Von Trapps, substituting slaughter of infidels for Alpine showtunes. In 2013, they went to Syria, hoping to make it into ISIS territory. Only John succeeded. He will probably die there. If this sounds to you more like an anti-American story than an American one, the fate of Tania and her kids might change your mind. After weeks in Syria, she and her kids ditched John and returned to Plano, Texas—home of John’s parents—in late 2013. She and the kids left Syria by slipping through a barbed-wire fence into Turkey. On arrival in Istanbul, she was exhausted. (If you’ve ever dragged kids through an airport terminal, imagine doing the same punishing journey, but under sniper fire.) John’s parents rescued them and brought them back to Plano.

Now Tania Georgelas, who says she would like to work for a de-radicalization program, attends a Unitarian church, joining her boyfriend for trips “wine bars and bistros” and shooting ranges. She has, as Wood puts it, “remade herself into a Texas society woman” in the suburbs of Dallas.

If you’d like to read more on Tania Georgelas, Texas Monthly ran a profile last month.