The year was 1915, a year after the Great War started.

Michael Salamone's great-grandmother Marie LaMonica left Italy as a child with her family and boarded a ship to get to America. The ship was crowded and infested with pests. When she arrived at Ellis Island, she fell ill with a high fever.

Great-Grandma Marie was only a year old at the time and was quarantined. Luckily, she got over the fever and was allowed to leave the port and reunite with her father, who worked at a pasta factory.

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