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Goodreads asked Patty Blount:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Patty Blount hahaha! This has me laughing because the 'mystery' lately is where did I put that thing I urgently need now but put away in a safe place and can't remember what it is.

Seriously, aside from memory issues, one of my grandparents (all of whom are deceased) had an interesting back story. He was born in Argentina. We're of Italian descent, so no one is entirely sure what his parents were doing in Argentina at the time he was born. One story is that his father had to flee to escape debtors' prison. Another story is that immigrants en route to New York's Ellis Island were re-routed because of a flu outbreak so they settled in Argentina until the ban was lifted.

I've tried to use sites like Ancestry to get the answers, but it's proved unsuccessful.

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