Chapter 49
“Do you remember when I told you about being interviewed at the border when I came back into the States after visiting you? About how, as I was waiting to be interviewed, I watched an older guy interview the two families in front of me, and I wondered how it would go if he interviewed me. I was expecting stern warnings about meeting people from your part of the world on the internet. Warnings not unlike the warnings on the embassy website. I was lucky. I was interviewed by a woman who was very understanding, who wanted to know about us, but without any stern warnings or disbelief. She understood what true love is, and she accepted my story with no argument, no stern warnings. Maybe we just need to try again at the embassy and hope you get someone like that. Or maybe I need to come to Algiers and come to the embassy interview with you. I would do that if I thought it would help, even though I do not really want to come to Algiers again.”