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Family reunion honors the start of American ancestry

Licking icing from his fingers, 3-year-old Alex DiPasquo buzzed into the arms of his grandmother. "Did you take the smokestack off the cake?" Mickey DiPasquo, 64, said, feigning annoyance. A brightly decorated sheet cake, flaunting a map of Italy and the United States - and now, a mangled ship traveling between the two - sat on the dessert table surrounded by cream-stuffed cannolis, almond cookies, bowls of fruit, and pizzelles.

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