After surviving
the brutal civil war, where suicide bombs had been blowing up in front
of their house, they were finally reunited with their family in the
Bronx. You see, the driving force that brought them here were two
American citizens, their grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Elias came in
around 1970. They are model Americans, the Eliases. I met them. I talked to them. I enjoyed talking to them. Mr. Elias started out as a tailor, a skill
that is disappearing. We don't have too many tailors left in America. He is an entrepreneur, like so many immigrants, and he started a small
business. He now refurbishes the interior of boats mainly on City
Island over there in the Bronx. I have been there.
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