Happy Fourth of July!

Elena Tucker
2 min readJul 2, 2021
Photo by Elisha Terada on Unsplash

Happy Fourth of July! The day of Independence — and day of barbecue. We celebrate our uniquely American holiday by eating German food (hamburgers and hot dogs), cooked over an open flame as in Africa, and setting off fireworks invented by the Chinese. Like I said, uniquely American.

There are some things I absolutely love about my country, and July Fourth is one of them. Picnics in the park to bands playing John Phillip…

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Elena Tucker

Writer and storyteller, immigrant, wife, mom, knitter, collector of jokes, lover of cheap, sweet wine.