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Quest for Citizenship Ends as Bill Returns Home
A long international saga tracks Bill, born in America, in exile through Greece. He fights for proof of citizenship while Tula and Effie navigate records offices across Illinois Missouri New York to obtain a birth certificate and a U S passport. Finally Bills voyage home culminates as he reaches Cleveland and proclaims, Tam home At last I am home.
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America
Bill
Athens
U.S
Roosevelt
Patras
Tula
Denise
Thens
Greece
Austria
Granite City
Cleveland
Ilinois
Missouri
Eftie de Coulos
Tala
Eftie
Effie
Chicago
New York
Detroit
Altoona
Alton
Kankakee
Psefto
George
Clayton
Aaron Fishman
State Department
Fishman
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
United States
Attorney Fishman
Tam