(Max Winkler, author of A Penny from Heaven.). In 1907. At the age of 19, Winkler, a poor immigrant, aboard the S.S. Gerty, his words after approaching New York and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the very first time. Everyone was on deck, and the deck was rocking with ever growing waves of laughter, tears, embraces, kisses and dances. Nothing that had happened in our past mattered anymore. And as the Manhattan skyline revealed itself in its unmatched greatness before our astonished eyes something even stranger happened. We all stopped dancing, laughing, crying and kissing. We just froze. We stood and looked and looked, speechless, motionless, wondering that this tremendous mass did not sink into the ocean.
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