Elise finally succumbed to exhaustion just as the plane was circling Schiphol Airport. She was flying from New York to Amsterdam to visit an aging uncle. Elise had never left the U.S. before, had never met this uncle, never knew he existed. "Your mother's brother requested you meet him in Amsterdam," her father said. "Sigmund was always a strange bird, but he said it was urgent."It would be a short trip as she was about to enter law school, following her father's footsteps at Columbia. Elise had no interest in law; as an English major she spent her college years reading 19th century novels. Bu