Dear Lucille,Thank you for the package. Yes. I have seen that New York and Chicago are deep in snow but here, it is not too bad. No snow at any rate.I stay up all night hating the suspense that always develops around Shayne. The other day I found an old letter, I gave to the police about the long disappearances and about my fears that she was in the control of vindictive people, who want to use her to punish me. Now I have become really dead inside. My body has been deliberately and brutally broken and my profession destroyed and the laws get harsher every day, like during WWII. My problems here never got resolved and each day, it gets harder to resolve them. Earlier this week, I called Shayne's former place of employment and the person, male, there said, she would be there after 1:00 on Saturday, that's today. It's 7 o'clock here. I have been up all night, as usual, working at the computer, because I am a nervous wreck. It's hard to eat anything, because the food is bad and usually requires of washing, before it can be consumed. And even then, I will often get a sore place in my mouth, from something that I chewed. I landed on a website honoring a great composer, whom I never heard of, who came from Armenia and had a lot of problems that reminded me of my life. For instance, to get permission to leave Russia, he had to submit his manuscripts to the authorities and some of the pages were removed. Luckily, he had negatives of the works which he smuggled out of Russia. However, after he arrived in the US, he had to turn over documents, like his diploma, signed by Shostikovich..(sp?) to the American authorities. And he never got them back, though he requested them. I remember how I had to stuff my initial blueprints for an improved magnetic bubble computer in my boot to preserve what was left of them, when I was allowed to return to Amsterdam in 1991 from Switzerland. Half of my money ($30,000) and papers of mine were stolen from my hotel room. I also lost 3 pairs of shoes, because of the confusion. We were lucky not to lose our lives. Eventually, I published my diagrams myself. Have a happy Xmas! I just hope I hear from Shayne before then.