Lucy Berrington: Sacred Ceremony

Berrington Dept: For many immigrants who come to America to seek a better life, it s an almost sacred ceremony, something like being born again, says Berrington, 42, who came to the U.S. from Britain in 1997, according to The Star. It was unexpectedly moving, observes Berrington, a graduate student at Tufts University, a lovely thing, really and it was a chill January day last year when Lucy Berrington and 400 other immigrants from around the world gathered in Boston s famed Faneuil Hall the nation s cradle of liberty on the historic Freedom Trail to take an oath and become citizens of the United States. Despite a wintry New England day, she found warmth in the words of the presiding judge, she says. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.