Maria Elizabeth Coverdale

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I’d never imagined that much like my grandmother, I would find myself as an immigrant in a distant land. The circumstances on which we both traveled were very different. She fled Portugal nearly a century ago to escape an upcoming dictatorship and its social and economic crisis and to look for opportunities with her husband and a toddler in her arms. I was pursuing a new phase in my adult life that included taking a leap of faith and starting a new career in another country.