We first introduced you to Cynthia one year ago. Cynthia lives on a hobby farm just outside of Tallahassee with her husband of 50 years.
For Cynthia, it’s the perfect small-town American life. That is, until a few years ago, when she went to renew her driver license at her local DMV office and discovered she didn’t have the paperwork to prove she was—well, American.
“I just didn’t never think about nothing else. I paid my taxes. I’ve done everything like everybody else, and I’ve been here all my life,” she said. “I’ve never been to Canada, except for when I was born and I don’t remember that” she told me during our interview last year.
Cynthia’s birth mom was Canadian, and her dad was American.
When the family moved to the United States, she was just an infant. After nearly six decades living and working in the U.S., Cynthia discovered her parents had never secured the documents …