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… to you: some words you understand some you don’t. At that time two ladies asked me to give blood. I didn’t understand the word blood; I had …
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… because the regular dinner hour was only around 7 o'clock. For holidays we went to the Tatra Mountains in Slovakia, to the Adriatic Ocean … Instead of going to university, I got pregnant and on a snowy, winter day in 1947 Mike was born. Peter, after the death of his father, took … cloths and silverware, to be sent after us to Switzerland. On May 1st, 1947, we left our homeland in a car driven by a brewery employee, …
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… was born in Bayfield, Westmorland County, New Brunswick on March 21st, 1912, the youngest son of Norman and Annie (Grant) MacRae. Hugh … Centre, the Canadian Army (Active) at Edmundston, N.B. on the 8th day of October, 1942. He served in Canada, the United Kingdom and … born on April 2nd, 1947 and a son, Thomas Henry MacRae, born May 31st, 1948, both in Halifax, N.S. After leaving Halifax in 1952 the …
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… those peels. First peel of my ego came off when at united nation high commission for refugees I was recognized as stateless. You see, I took … If we are lucky we will experience the peeling- and our soul comes through young and vibrant with no attachment to anything …
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… Palestine. Thousands in the camp went back to Iraq. They preferred to die in Iraq than to die in the desert waiting to be a refugee. There are only 150 of us …
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… He loved drifting there until everybody leaned over the rails, only to come up just then and blow his fishy breath into everybody’s faces. One …
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… hometown of Sambiasc Clabria in late March, as we were to travel to Canada on the Vulcania on April 1, 1955 departing from the Port of … Saturnia. I guess I must have gotten better as we boarded the next day to a journey, which would take us 12 days to arrive in Halifax. The Vescio family of 6 plus the remaining …
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… took place some 57 years ago, other aspects are as clear as yesterday. I am pleased to share them in this fashion, as my son has now … Bob almost 10 months ago, on May 8th, 1945 (which of course was V-E day), which was only one month after our wedding. I remember the ship … our new city - I remember a discussion that Del's Ice Cream Parlor in St. James was the big place to be seen! I still stay in touch with two …
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… Haitian boy and girl so I had Haitian siblings and together we went to Canada. Living in Canada was hard - it was like a fairy tale, but I was the strange beast … The Life of a Can-Haitian by Fraser …
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… as a child were narrow and limited. When I entered university, I studied architecture and the students were encouraged to travel, …