Englandbut tuberculosis had ended all this and they lived in a constant defeat and depression. Someone once wrote that a displaced person with a spot on his lung was a man without a passport. But this is World Refugee Year and although most nations. including the United States. would not accept them. the Naumov family is going to a country called Canada which this year established two unique criteria for the first hundred families to qualifyyou must have tuberculosis. and have no sponsor to vouch for you. In the YMCA barracks where they had said goodbye to others. the Naumovs have the first real party of their lives. A visitor. lucky enough to be present. does whatever he knows how to do. This woman is Anna Zaikin. a Russian refugee. She urged her husband and son to go to the United States 12 years ago when they had the chance. She remained behind. disqualified with tuberculosis. Now. as a result of a revised. American immigration law. she. too was leaving. to rejoin her family in Ohio. Peter Naumov. the guest of honor. doesnt know how to dance. He doesnt know how to smile. either.
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