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"The Portuguese are the unknown people. We are lost in this vast country. Nobody knows we are here. To be Portuguese in America is to be a stone dropped in the middle of the ocean. It sinks beneath the waves and vanishes without a trace."

— Charles Reis Felix Da Gama, Cary Grant, and the Election of 1934 (2005)

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Thank God for the mind. It's the only place where we have freedom of speech.

Crossing the Sauer: a memoir of World War II (2002)

He is gone now. His shop is gone. Weld Square is gone.
His life has been wiped clean off the board.
But I wake in the night and I see his face and I hear his voice.

Through a Portagee Gate (2004)

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