Dear Teacher,
One day the propaganda department of Anshan Iron and Steel summoned me and admonished me to not think of leaving. They said that if I am not well behaved, they would cast me into prison—there was nothing strange about that. That was just what the Communist Party said and often times did to have control over people.
They knew that I was thinking of leaving because of my fiancee. I no longer received letters from her. She could not write to me again because her political organization asked her to make a clean break with me. She must cut off our relationship from now on, if not her father would write to me to beg me not to also jeopardize her future.
I realized how stupid I had been to trust anything the Communists said. I should have known better. I felt that I had caused all these problems myself, by being so naive.
I decided that I wanted to seek a livelihood by myself. I really wanted nothing but to see my fiancee and be married.
Sincerely, Robert