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Walking Through Ellis Island with My Characters

October is Italian American Heritage Month, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Ellis Island. More than half of Sicilians who arrived there were pulled aside for “Special Inquiry”—because they looked “suspicious,” didn’t have the $25 entry fee, or spoke dialects no inspector understood. Imagine being exhausted from weeks at sea and not knowing if you’d be allowed to stay.

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