Love brought Joseph Rollo to America. He was a teenager from Sicily when he first visited the United States and met Anna Maria, the woman he would later marry. The couple sent letters back and forth across the Atlantic for about a year, and though he had never planned to live in America, she convinced him to attend college in the Philadelphia area.

Rollo, who returned to the United States in 1976, shortly after his 19th birthday, will turn 60 this year. As a lawyer specializing in immigration cases and international law, he has helped thousands of others make journeys similar to his own. Looking back, he is almost in disbelief at the leap he made as a young man.