In October 1924, Kalliope Koyka got off a train in Chicago wearing a tag pinned on her by an agent of the Travelers Aid Society. Speaking virtually no English, the 7-year old was looking for her parents. They had left her with relatives in Greece when they came to America two years earlier. Lord knows how she got through immigration at Ellis Island. But someone must have brought her to the .
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