00:00This one honestly feels like a full-circle moment.
00:03Rosa came to the United States back in 1967, from Guatemala.
00:09She did everything right, worked legally, paid taxes, raised her family.
00:1557 years of building a life.
00:18Four kids, 11 grandkids, even great-grandchildren, all growing up American.
00:24And every year, her daughter would ask her why she didn't apply for citizenship.
00:29Rosa would just say she wasn't ready.
00:32Then at 93, something shifted.
00:35She finally said she was.
00:38So at 94, on a random Tuesday morning in a courtroom in Denver, she raised her right hand and took
00:44the oath.
00:45When the judge said congratulations, citizen, her whole family just couldn't hold it in.
00:51Her grandkids stood up cheering so loud they had to be told to sit down, and even the bailiff was
00:57tearing up.
00:59And what she said after.
01:01That's the part that stays with you.
01:03She'd always felt American in her heart, now it was just official.
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