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Coming to America

A story of Albanian immigrants to the United States from the Cresco Times Plain Dealer. And albanianmusic.com have a thread on their forum telling the stories of parents and grandparents who made the journey to the US.

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Anonymous said…
The story from the Iowa paper called Albanian a part of the former USSR, now I know this is from IA and one shouldn't expect much but that is just dumb. So, if the simple info is wrong, I doubt the rest of it is worth much!
5:35 pm
Anonymous said…
here's another story about young Albanians in the USA...


www.khswtby.org/eaglefly/dec04.pdf
7:48 pm
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