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RP: I was gonna ask you, did your mom ever apply to become a citizen of the United States?
JO: Oh yeah, she wasn't a... when was it? The first was it 1954? You remember when my mother got her citizenship? Same time you did?
Off camera: What?
JO: Did you, do you remember when you got your citizenship paper?
Off camera: Citizenship?
JO: Yeah, what year? I don't know.
RP: I think it was around 1952.
JO: No... well she, she got it right at... it might have been like that. That was, it was right after, shortly after they authorized it. I don't know when it was. And she got hers... when did you get yours?
Off camera: Huh? Oh, okay. Naturalization certificate?
JO: I got it...
Off camera: When... okay, date, April 15, 1955.
JO: Oh, 1955. So my mother had got it before that.
RP: Okay.
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