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This was a dream come true for my dad as he always wanted to live in the U.S., a free democratic country where you could express your views without being punished by the government. In his mind, the U.S. was the only country where this would be possible in 1967. While he had made attempts to leave Communist Hungary many times, he would not leave without taking his entire family which consisted of me and my mother.