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Four great things about America

Unqualified praise from an expat

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Brendan Dentino
Aug 23, 2026
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Statue of Liberty, New York under white and blue cloudy skies
Photo by Fernando Strabuli on Unsplash

I am back in Paris, where there are at least five Statues of Liberty. I have seen a few of them while living here for graduate school. The “real” Statue of Liberty, the one standing sentinel in New York Harbor, was donated by the French to the United States, which was founded in Philadelphia, which is where I lived …

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