But it was a very difficult adjustment [when her parents arrived in NYC after five years of separation] for me because initially I’d forgotten all my – my German. Most of us did. We made a wilful effort. We didn’t want to have anything to do with German, we didn’t want to admit we were German, so we remembered nothing. And so I had to re-learn my German. My mother’s English was sparse. But she was a linguist; they learnt French very quickly, they learnt English. So there was a language barrier, but the greater barrier was the fact that my mother felt that she wanted to pick up where we left off