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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

My dad’s father was from Romania. At the time he had been living with his long-time girlfriend from Honduras. No need to email me. He left in his early twenties to come to America for his med-school residency. He started out in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, where I was born. She, too, was from the old world.

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