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I had a friend who was born in pre-WWII Silesia, which was then part of Germany, and who immigrated to the US in the early 60s. She needed to have her passport renewed in the late-90s. When the new one was delivered and she saw that the gov't had located her birthplace in Poland, in a forlorn wail, she stated, "But I'm not Polish."

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