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On the grey afternoon of November 28, 1911, four young men in their early 20s hoist their bags on their shoulders and step down the gangway from the dock onto the ferry Ellis Island, bound for Jersey City from the immigration center. They are all from a pair of tiny adjoining villages in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy.
