Friday, May 4, 2012

What My Daughter Will Never Know About Her Past

Friday, May 4, 2012
When my 10-year-old daughter comes home from school armed with a family tree project, she wants to know all about where our people emigrated from. I tell her what I know. She is excited to hear that she has a great-great-great grandmother from Holland. Perfect for Immigration Day, she says, and then wonders aloud where she will find a pair of wooden clogs.

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