By Nicola Colella

Can you imagine what it was like to say goodbye to your family, your home and your friends? To leave for a strange country, not knowing the language, and with little or no money? Who would do such a thing? Why would anyone do something so drastic?
The following is not "pretty story." It is however a TRUE STORY that ends well, and it needs to be told, and told again and again, lest future generations forget. It is the history of our families emigration to America....why they came and what it was like when they got here.

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Source: http://www.italiamerica.org/