and the girls went ‘Oh my God, she’s telling the truth!'” Turns out, people think you’re joking when you say you lived next to the Statue of Liberty. The homecoming is something Carol will ...

She has been enamored with the statue since third grade. Her parents signed her up with the Statue of Liberty Club, an international group that meets every two years in Manhattan.

The Statue of Liberty, one of the most recognizable symbols of freedom and democracy across the world, was a gift of friendship to America from France. Inaugurated in 1886, the statue is 305 feet ...