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Adam Hassan tucked a small American flag into the front pocket of his button down shirt and smiled for a photo. On Friday he became a U.S. citizen.
It was a day he’s worked toward for nearly a decade and one that’s hard to comprehend.
After leaving his native country of Sudan, he spent 10 years in Egypt before he was approved to come to the United States. In 2015, he arrived in Concord and moved into a two bedroom apartment compex off of Loudon Road.
It’s not perfect. In fact, far from it. After a heater was removed, a hole was left in one wall. A broken fan and exposed ductwork hang from his kitchen ceiling. An unfinished front door is more than an eyesore.
But on the wall near the entrance, a wood panel hangs with green and yellow painted hands and footprints. It’s artwork from his three-year-old daughter – a reminder of how this space is all he’s known since settling down and where he calls home.
Earlier this month, though, he almost lost it. He wasn’t the only tenant in his complex either.
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