ABSTRACT
Crime and kidnapping was not as feared or perhaps as prevalent in those years as it is today. There was no fear of danger for young girls of twelve to sixteen taking public transport to the train station or to the airport by themselves. This chapter talks about Roxane who became an excellent skier and fluent in French as a result of her holidays in Switzerland. She stayed with the same family every year and grew close to them, becoming part of that family as well. Roxane and her husband divorced after sixteen years of marriage. Roxane later continued her studies at Cambridge University, where she received her PhD in Middle Eastern History and Art. Roxane was diagnosed with cancer in 2001. She remembers how anxious she was since it was an aggressive form of cancer. She describes hyperventilating and being panicky but never once crying throughout the whole ordeal because she thought that is not useful behaviour.
