People often have compelling reasons for wanting to emigrate to the United States.
This was not the case with Joanna Jurewicz of Poland, however. She came to the U.S. twice, once as a teenager and then again at age 20, just to visit her mother, who was living in the southern state of Tennessee. But when she finally did, she discovered that she no longer belonged there, that she had actually put down roots in the United States. It was both. It was the people, and it was the country.