When we talked about people tracing their ancestry yesterday I mentioned one of the things that made me think of it was my fiancee, a school teacher, was at Ellis Island with her students on a field trip. While there she sent me this picture of a creepy sign on display. Immigrants used to be checked out for medical and psychological problems and were given these coded designations. So many not speaking a word of English they'd have no idea what they meant. Sadly, after such a long voyage some were turned away and sent right back.

So she texts me this picture and tells me I would have been given an O with an X drawn inside it. After her bad joke, I texted her back that she'd have been given an L.

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