(Adopted)Home Again

There’s no place like it!

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I am a native of Long Island, NY. This means, among other things, that every place I travel or live that is NOT Long Island is exotic, foreign, and mysterious. And yet, I haven’t lived on my home island since I left for college in East Lansing, Michigan in 1969. East Lansing might seem humdrum to the sophisticated bon vivants of the world. But to the 18-year-old Pamela Bongiorno, the…