Irishwoman made legal in US... 90 years after arriving

An elderly Irishwoman is finally a legal resident of the US, nearly 90 years after she arrived on a boat from Ireland.

Now Josephine Stout, whose life has been pockmarked by tragedy, including the violent deaths of two of her children, is waiting to become a citizen.

Stout, 90, was just a year and a half old when she left Ireland with her parents in 1923.

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