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US Citizenship: The Swearing In Ceremony

4/23/2019

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On Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 3,128 people from 131 different countries became U.S. citizens at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and one of those people was my husband!  ​What an exciting, proud, and heart-warming day it was.

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Where Are You From?

12/16/2015

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This basic question has become one of my least favourite questions in the universe.  I deplore it. There’s a whole YouTube video that completely illustrates why I abhor this question, so I know I’m not alone.  When people ask me where I’m from, and they’re not satisfied when I say “LA,” I start to get really annoyed, because what they mean is “what is my ethnicity?” So, after I say “LA,” and they ask again, “No, where are you FROOMM?”  I say, “Torrance.” Then they start thinking it’s funny, and keep pressing me, and I’m forced to tell them I arrived from my mother’s hoohaw one beautiful April morning in the Torrance Memorial Hospital, probably in a similar fashion that they came into the world.


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