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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Colombia
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there was a time UCS didn't need a passport to travel out of country (mexico ... canada)

You mean like a couple of years ago? Guess that was a long long time ago. Next we will need passports to travel from state to state.

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Unlike your circumstance, I have actually met my relatives in Belarus / Russia and spent time in the village my grandparents were born. Being born in America and growing up during the Cold War era my mom never prodded my brother and I to embrace our Russian heritage. In fact, they tried to hide it. I remember my grandparents well since they lived only a few miles from us here in Houston. They always referred to their land of birth as the "old country" and didn't broadcast that they were from the Soviet Union. Most often they told people they were from Eastern Europe and said little else. They died when I was 12 years old and I didn't know they were born in what was then the USSR until I was in my 20's and looked on a map to see what part of Europe their village was located. I was shocked to learn it was in the middle of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. They were the enemy!

I was half joking about returning back to the land of my ancestors. I'm an assimilated American and it would be difficult for me to acclimate myself to a foreign culture I wasn't raised in. My short visits there are fun, but I'm not so sure I would want to live there for extended periods. I'm not fluent in the Russian language, so it would not be easy for me to live there.

The story I got is my grandmother was from Poland, my great grandmother, a maid was forced to become intimate with a French lord, grandmother was an only child. She had some defect in her eye where only a surgeon in Milwaukee at that time could repair it. So this lord with his money sent her here when she was around 13 years of age. But she never returned but met my grandfather also in Milwaukee and had a bunch of kids, like ten of them. My mom told me my grandfather on that side was very secretive about his past. But he did live a long life here dying at the age of 92. We can do a lot more tracing on my Italian side. Yeah, I know that makes me a mutt.

Made me jealous of my German Shepherd dogs where I could make a thousand bucks by breeding them, couldn't get anyone to even give me a penny for breeding with them. But then, I am a mutt, not a pure bred. But didn't have to pay for it either, am I bragging? Ha, just bred with another mutt.

 

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