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Nope. The Cuban refugee was brought to the swank abode of R.J. Reynolds heirs Smith and Elizabeth Bagley so he could see "what a typical in-town American home looked like," after all the time he's spent holed up at the Wye Plantation with his father, awaiting his return to Cuba.

"As the result of this trip." Kamen writes, "Elián came to understand that, unlike in Cuba, most kids here, because it's cold in the winter, have pools in their basements." He also learned that American homes are decorated with Rembrandt and Toulouse-Lautrec originals.
salon.com | May 11, 2000

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