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What's good? You're listening to Code Switch? I'm Gene Demby. So 25 years ago,

a miracle happened. It was Thanksgiving Day, 1999, and a little boy appeared off the coast of Miami, his small

body bobbing up and down in the ocean. Two fishermen found him there and helped him get to the

shore. He was all alone. He was days, but he was remarkably alive. That little boy, his name

was Elian Gonzalez, and he was almost six years old when

he showed up on the shores of Florida. He and his mother have been traveling from Cuba on their

way to the United States on a boat made out of aluminum. Elian's mom and ten others, they died

during that journey. The boat's engine turned out to be faulty. But somehow, Elion survived.

But if that harrowing journey were not traumatic or dramatic enough, little Elion was immediately

thrust into the spotlight. His fate became the subject of this big international debate.

Should he stay in the U.S. and live with his relatives in Miami? Or should he go back

to Cuba to live with his father who very much wanted him back? How people answered that

question at the time, it tended to reflect a lot about their wider beliefs, about the benefits

of democracy, about the importance of family, about America, about Cuba, about

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