From NY Times.Com Before Abi left her parents’ house in northern Germany last year, she asked her father, “Daddy, what can I bring you from my journey?” He looked up from his book and answered, “Some perfumed oil.” “Will do,” she said, hugging him goodbye. He is still waiting, more than a year later, for her to return. Abi, now 23, and her husband never made the trip they said they had planned to Saudi Arabia to visit Mecca and Medina. … [Read more...]