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He is on the mend at home, and still uses oxygen. Legal paperwork lists the wedding date as Oct. “I am so happy it did, so I can spend my forever with the man that I love.” By 1920, when immigration began to taper off, more than 4 million Italians had come to the. In the 1880s, they numbered 300,000 in the 1890s, 600,000 in the decade after that, more than two million. soil in a place that has now become a legendEllis Island. Most of this generation of Italian immigrants took their first steps on U.S.
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“I didn’t think that was going to happen so soon,” she said. Italian earthquake refugees board ship for the U.S., 1909. When she got to Johnson’s room - where he was no longer in isolation or contagious - he told her that she was there for a wedding. It’s something they both deserve.”įamily, friends and an officiant were looped in and persuaded Copeland to do her hair and makeup and head up to the hospital for a visit on Oct. “With Jonathan, this gave us hope and it kind of keeps us going. “You see a lot of sadness, and sometimes the end isn’t always what we wanted,” nurse Jenna Harvey said. He landed in Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital and was on a ventilator for more than three weeks.Īs soon as Johnson got off the ventilator, he decided the time was right for the wedding. He quarantined in the couple's bedroom away from Copeland and their 2-year-old son.Ĭopeland also tested positive, but it was Johnson whose condition worsened. Johnson was diagnosed with COVID-19 in September.