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Cool story.
I do find it sad, though, that these days the word liberty is seldom heard apart from the word statue. Once upon a time it was a pretty earth-shaking concept, and in the 21st century it has become known mainly as a tourist attraction.
I remember a picture of my mother, my sister, my brother and myself taken in front of the Statue of Liberty. I was four. In order to get the entire statue in the background my father had to lie on the ground and we were standing on a bench. My mother wore the tupperware grin that was a motif of photos spanning decades. My sister looked shy and my brother bemused. I was staring into the distance because that looked bold and adventurous and four-year-olds abroad think about little else than the ease of conquering foreign lands. We climbed to the top, either before or afterwards. I can't remember.