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==== Blondycc128 Amethyst 5/1/08  My name is Catherine Carey; I was 18 years old when my family and I came to Ellis Island. My father used all the money that we had from trading and selling to get all of us tickets to get on a ship to America. The ship that we went on was called Adriatic. On the boat we made many friends and met many people from different cultures. The reason why we were coming to America was that in Ireland there was poverty and the Potato Famine, that was making people sick and there was not enough food for everyone. My baby brother, Michael, was very sick. We needed to get him some medicine to get better. In Ireland we couldn’t afford the medicine and there wasn’t enough for everyone that needed it. We didn’t know what he had or what was wrong with him because he hadn’t gone to a doctor yet and he couldn’t speak to tell us what was wrong. We had stayed in Ellis Island for a couple of nights after the ship had ported. On the third night on Ellis Island we brought my brother to a doctor and it turns out that my brother had a cold, which was a relefe. The doctor said that we just had to give him a teaspoon of medicine a day and he would get better. ====