Jana,

So you like my tuna-fish sandwiches. I sort of like them also. But I have to tell you that in the States they’re usually nothing so special. As a matter of fact, kids often look in their school lunch box and say: “Ah, Mom! Tuna-fish sandwiches again?”

I was happy to be able to pay off your balance for you yesterday. I’ve started to feel sort of protective toward you and it has made me sad to see you held captive in such a way. Now you’ll get your passport back and you’ll at least be free enough to do things the way you want and whatever money you earn will be yours alone. I think it’s a hideous system that the bosses can control the girl’s lives so abusively.

You don’t talk about it so much but I know you’re homesick and miss your family terribly. And I know you’re only here to try to help them but the cost to you is pretty severe. I know about homesickness; I suffer from it pretty badly myself from time to time and I don’t even have a family of my own to miss. But I miss the family that’s not there.

Anyway, I hope things start working out for you really soon now. And I’ll do whatever little bit I can to help.

I’ll call you tomorrow night.

Me