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and while i’m there, find my great grandparents’ names on the wall! :) i’ve seen the statue of liberty a million times and visited it up close once, but idk why i still haven’t been to ellis island! even in the fourth grade we had ā€œimmigrant dayā€ where we all dressed up and learned about ellis island and the immigration process back then but for some reason they didn’t take us on a field trip there…
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Oh man I think about this all the time. I think I’m older than you but my ā€œsome reasonā€ in 4th grade was 9/11. They canceled all of our field trips that year and then in 5th grade did weird replacements like the NJ zinc mine where they filmed Zoolander and some nature trail where they only talked about scatology. So yeah I missed my chance to do any of the New York things you should do before the age of 12.
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ooh love this!! excited for you to eventually find an opportunity to go! ✨
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thickrimmedgirl thank you!! also i realized that my description of dressing up may come off weird, i was just dressed as a little polish girl! (and my family is polish/italian/scottish lol)
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marxinista I understood what you meant! And yaaay fellow Polish girl!! (my maternal grandfather emigrated from Poland)
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thickrimmedgirl yesss *insert pierogi emoji*
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