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Every couple of weeks or so, someone will write in to ask about Steve. A good while back, I wrote a column about Steve, who was born in the Soviet Union. He lived in various places around the world and moved to the United States with his new wife in 1963. He got a job fixing machines in a factory, he coached his son’s baseball team, and he took his family to fireworks shows on the Fourth of July. He always loved being an American.

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