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Iris Smith  lives in Tulalip, Washington. 

I met her at the Northwest Christian writers meeting and was fascinated by her story. 

She is originally from Boston where her parents and grandparents emigrated, both from Italy and Russia.  And that's kind of a fun story that we get to hear about. 

This family history involves 

• a ruptured appendix and subsequent coma for a month
• the Bolshevik Revolution
• imprisonment,
• a trip to Ellis Island
•  work in a clothing factory
•  a fire
• Mafia Mobs
•  POW in the Korean War,
• Leonard Nimoy
• Senator Kennedy
• Italian recipes
• Joni and Friends
• a tv series
• and more!

LINKS: Celiac Recipes, Polcari's, Ellis Island, Joni and Friends

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