The Importance of Living in the Neighborhood

"We were saved from total isolation thanks only to the fact that our father's sister, Magda, and her husband, Zali, decided to buy a plot of land down the street," she says. "Our small tribe rode bicycles through the neighborhood, always looking over our shoulders for the kidnappers' ominous black van." In Cornwall Lane there were two brothers who lived in adjacent houses and were in business with their father. When he was eventually caught in a federal lawsuit was filed against him, he too killed himself.