Our first clash with Soviet official bodies showed that for us the law does not existthey refused to register our marriage. The Soviet official institutions attitude toward us is explained by my husbands being at the time a refusenik of almost a years standing. With great difficulty we found a rabbi who was not afraid of marrying us in a Jewish religious ceremony. After the wedding I was forced to leave the USSR. but they continued to detain my husband without offering any reasons for this refusal. My husband continued his efforts to obtain a visa. He helped other refuseniks. who. like he himself. were outside the law. He lived without a home. continually harassed and trailed.