The voyage was an ordeal, but it was worth it. They were on their way to America.

Edward Corsi, [ . . .] was a ten-year-old Italian immigrant when he sailed into New York harbor in 1907:

“My mother, my stepfather, my brother Giuseppe, and my two sisters, Liberta and Helvetia, all of us together, happy that we had come through the storm safely, clustered on the foredeck for fear of separation and looked with wonder on this miraculous land of our dreams.”

—Immigrant Kids,
Russell Freedman

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