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Dec 18, 2020
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Elda Merulla and Pasquale Magnanti on their wedding day

Like many white Americans, my ancestors have more in common with the migrants crossing borders today than with the Puritans and Protestants whose mythologized work ethic was the supposed basis for American success. My people are not Daughters of the American Revolution nor are they New England blues…

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