I was once coming home through LAX when a steely-eyed immigration officer peered suspiciously at me. “How long have you been a green card holder?” “Oh, I have had it for ages,” I said. “More than twenty years.” “Then why aren’t you an American?” “Erm. Er … Well …” I hesitated. What should I say? What was the correct thing to say? “Because, sir, I am an Englishman. Born and raised in England under the bombs of Hitler. A member of one of its most prestigious universities, from a college founded in 1347. A man who watched England win the World Cup at Wembley in 1966 and Manchester United lift the
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