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Colleen looked out at the endless ocean before her. She tried to imagine what the United States would look like, this foreign land she and Sean would learn to call home. The decision to leave their family and friends in Ireland and sail west to America had been a hard one, and she had known the trip on the Atlantic Ocean would be long and difficult. Now, however, all of their doubts faded away, and she breathed deeply, smelling the cold, salty air. She and Sean would soon have a house of their own, just in time for the arrival of their first child. It was 1847, and the Potato Famine that had ravaged their home country had driven many Irish to emigrate to America. As Colleen looked around the ship, she could see many people from her town huddled together to escape the cold.
What is the setting of the passage? At least 3...
Outside, on a boat, on the ocean (Atlantic), 1847