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Northshore October 2025
Haverhill resident, businessman, and one-time refugee Sam Meas retraces his perilous path to American politics. By Bryan McGonigleIn the mid-1980s, an immigrant boy was sent by INS to be examined by an orthodontist to determine his age. His Cambodian birth records were destroyed by the Khmer Rouge, the Communist supporters whose movement and power grab killed millions in Cambodia. The orthodontist guessed that the boy was born between 1970 and 1972; the boy settled on the latter as his birth year.He then was given a calendar and told to pick out a birthday, a concept that was strange to him because there were no birthday celebrations under th
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