Re: 50 years later
Lovely.
It's an interesting story Susan, my best friend at school was jilted by her fiance', also from Europe many years ago. She never heard from him again, and eventually gave up trying to contact him.
You say family intervention stopped the union and my brother-in-law who is Swiss German said he was sure that the young man's parents had disapproved of the union and forbidden it. They'd met over here when he was a student. He said that we had no idea how much influence parents could bring to bear still, just like in our Victorian age. If Papa said no then that was it!!
Lovely to hear this story has a happy ending.