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We fly over to the USA every year for four weeks in a rented house on the tip of Cape Cod. It's somewhat isolated, and we usually only get visitors from immediate family members (our daughter in NYC and her husband or my brother in northern Virginia).
We have been doing this for 35 years in a row now, and would be extremely unhappy to be prevented from coming. My wife is a German citizen, so if the US authorities won't let her in, I certainly wouldn't consider it a vacation sitting in that house all alone, no matter HOW spectacular the sunsets are (and they ARE pretty spectacular).
** on edit--I am still drawing my salary back in Dallas, but I am starting to have a guilty conscience about it. I can't do a thing to earn it for the moment, and it really isn't fair. Of course, I have been putting in 80 hour to 100 hour weeks for the last 40+ years, so it's not like I'm not due some overtime consideration, but I'm decently compensated for my time, so it's not like I feel cheated for the time I've put in. My outfit can be a difficult taskmaster, but the top brass also has a heart. Once we had one guy who used to be an effective employee back 'in Dallas until he got caught up in some ultra-"Christian" cult. He lost his wife, and, after trying to convert people in the office, his job with us, and that is a hard thing to do. But, in recognition of previous years of loyalty, we kept him on the books as an employee at a token salary so he wouldn't lose his health insurance coverage. We did this for six months until he found another job. I don't know of many employers that would do that.
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