All 340,110,988 of us Americans have an origin story, the tale of how and when we came to be in this New World Colossus, this week celebrating its 250th birthday. Many were born here, others were imported. As the country commemorates its 1/4 millennium, here's mine in a nutshell. The parents of my late mom, Lily Friedman, were refugees fleeing antisemitism in Czarist Russia. They arrived via Ellis Island around 1905. Born in 1919 in Newark, N.J.…
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