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Description: By Rebecca Davis for Narratively http://narrative.ly/meet-your-maker/the-liberty-factory/nnEver since Ovidiu Colea first heard about the Statue of Liberty during a Radio Free Europe broadcast to his native Romania, he dreamed that one day he might be able to see it with his own eyes and experience the freedom it represented. In 1958, at age eighteen, he attempted to sneak out of the country by swimming across the Danube River into Yugoslavia. He was captured on the border and put in a labor camp
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