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Local mom Linda Harling confirmed yesterday that Grandma had so few objects in her suitcase when she immigrated to the United States in 1912.
“She stepped onto the gold-paved streets of New Jersey clutching a huge trunk packed with only a scarf and a can of beans,” said Harling. “She knew only two words of English, and they were the names of the two objects she had in her massive, vacant suitcase.”
Sources could not corroborate whether one of the items in the huge, hollow chest was traded in a local market for the very typewriter that started her journalism career, and it is still unclear whether the man who traded away that typewriter was the very man Grandma ended up marrying that very next month.
“Grandma turned an insanely tiny amount of objects into a bunch more objects and like, eight new people,” continued Harling. “And it all started with that one near-empty suitcase.”
At press time, Harling claimed that, when Grandma went to school, she had even fewer items in her backpack.
