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nose. She took another deep breath and took the only picture that was left of Stefan out of the shoebox. It was taken one night in the local pub in Knauppshausen. Melissa was wearing a white peasant blouse which showed off the tan she got that summer. Stefan was wearing a black tee shirt which made his blue eyes look even a shade lighter. They were holding hands
    and smiling into the camera. It was obvious to everyone that they were very much in love with each other.
    An hour later, Melissa finally put the shoebox with the picture and letters back into her closet. She wiped her eyes one more time and quietly left the safety of her bedroom to say good night to her daughter.

Chapter 10
     
     
    Three days later, Melissa was sitting in the same seat in front of Dr. Foster’s desk for her second appointment.
    “Did you complete your assignment, Melissa?” Dr. Foster asked.
    “Yes, I brought the letters with me, along with my responses and feelings to the letters.”
    “Good. Would you like to read it all to me?”
    She shook her head. “I don’t think I want to read Stefan’s letters again. It’s just too painful.”
    “Okay. Would you mind if I read his letters and your responses? Then we can discuss them.”
    “Okay.” Melissa handed the letters and responses to Dr. Foster. While she read the letters, Melissa studied her psychiatrist. She guessed Dr. Foster to be in her mid-40 ’s. She had brown hair with a hint of gray which she wore in a fashionable bob and expressive hazel eyes that were now hidden by glasses that she wore to read the letters. Melissa admired the stylish blue suit the doctor was wearing.
    “Okay,” Dr. Foster said as she sat the letters on her desk. She took her glasses off and gently laid them on the desk. “Let’s go over the first letter that Stefan wrote to you. You wrote in your response that you felt ashamed that you did not write to him after you received the first letter. Why didn’t you respond to it?”
    “I didn’t know what to write. My parents and sister were getting on me about Stefan almost every day. It seemed like we couldn’t get through a meal without the subject being brought up.”
    Dr. Foster nodded. “Okay. Now for the second letter Stefan sent to you. You wrote that you ruined your life at the age of eighteen. What did you mean by that?”
    “I meant because I knew that I could not go back to Germany and marry Stefan. I knew then that my parents would never permit it.”
    “I see. Now let’s go over the letter you sent to Stefan. Tell me what you were thinking when you wrote that letter and how you felt when you mailed it.”
    “I wrote him the letter because I knew that my parents would not let me go to Germany to be with Stefan. I was so tired of feeling like I was the one that was making my parents’ lives miserable. My mother cried all the time and my father blamed me for it. He just about ignored me until I sent that letter. They were so happy when I told them I sent a letter to Stefan telling him that I was not going back to Germany to be with him. I cried myself to sleep for weeks.
    I lost interest in everything. My best friend, Valerie, tried to set me up with other guys, but I just wasn’t interested. I only wanted Stefan.”
    “How old were you when you sent the letter to Stefan?” Dr. Foster inquired.
    “I told you, I was eighteen.”
    “Yes. And in this country the legal adult age is eighteen, Melissa. You could have gone back to Germany and to Stefan if you wanted to.” Dr. Foster waited for her reaction to that statement.
    “If I wanted to!” she exclaimed. Melissa stood up and walked over to the window. She spun around and stared at Dr. Foster. With tears in her eyes and her voice, she said, “I did want to. I wanted to go back to Stefan more than I’ve ever wanted anything. But I couldn’t do that to my parents. I owed that to them.”
    “You owed what to your parents.”
    “I owed them loyalty. They’ve done so much for me over