Americans throw the best birthday parties. I know. I showed up to one uninvited and never left.
I came to this country as a young man with no money and limited knowledge of the language. What I lacked in material substance, I made up for with conviction. I had a half-formed but fierce belief that this was the place. Not a place. The place.
So I did what you do when you want to belong somewhere officially. I sat down with the citizenship paperwork and began working through the questions one by one.
The first questions were simple.
What is your name?Where were you born?
