105-year-old realizes dream of citizenship
Iranian-born Sona Babai was among 7,000 others who became U.S. citizens at ceremonies in Pomona. She joined family here six years ago.
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Her link to America began as it has for so many immigrants: through a desire to give her children a first-class education and unlimited opportunities.
Neither Babai nor her husband Mokhtar, who died in 1991 at age 103, ever learned to read or write. But they knew the value of an American education, so Antoine and another son came to the U.S. to study advertising design and engineering, respectively, at Louisiana State University.
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