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Getting Here

Words to Understand capitalize take advantage of; build upon diaspora a large migration of a specific culture or people self-sufficient able to survive without outside help supply chain a series of businesses that trades goods to reach markets ed to start a new life. At 24, she’d agreed to come to America to be married—to a husband she’d never even met! She was one of thousands who followed the same path. Some of them were nervous about their new life, but Hrisanthi was excited about her future in the United States. Despite not knowing how to speak English, she was smart and educated. She’d helped in a family store back in Greece, and she knew she could help her husband with the store he was running in Los Angeles. Her futurehusbandwas aGreek immigrantwhohadalready settled in theUnited States. A fewmonths earlier, he had sent word back to Greece that he needed a wife. W hen Hrisanthi Androutsos sailed through New York Harbor in the early 1920s and saw the famous Statue of Liberty on Ellis Island, she was excit-

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