I sat up in bed and shouted, laughed and cried by turns,
waving my handkerchief to the flag out there. They thought I had
lost my head, but I told them no, thank God! I had found it, and
my heart, too, at last. I knew then that it was my flag; that my
children's home was mine, indeed; that I also had become an American
in truth. And I thanked God, and, like unto the man sick of the
palsy, arose from my bed and went home, healed.
[Illustration: That minute I knew]
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