My name is Gelu Dumitru.


"Happy then, happy now. Never want my life any other way."


DEPARTED FROM
Bucharest, Romania

ARRIVED IN
New York, New York

YEAR
1980

AGE
25

NOW LIVES IN
Chester, New York

Hot days of August 1980. Left communist Romania on what I thought was going to be a one way trip, never to return where I spit.

I was pick up from the airport by Aurel Popescu, a Romanian baptist pastor and taken to the most famous American restaurant, McDonald on Queens Boulevard.

Happy then, happy now. Never want my life any other way. God bless the United States of America.


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