One can be an expatriate without leaving his native soil.
Samuel Putnam
Paris Was Our Mistress
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I’m originally from Iowa. It took a long time for me to realize that we were free to go.
Jake Johanssen
Prairie Rambler
Above Proposed Iowa license plate (not adopted) by Jerry Bond © 1991.