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Marilyn Wiles-Mooij doesn’t even know why her parents were in the U.S. when she was born 67 years ago near Atlanta. Her British military pilot father and French mother went back to Europe when she was a month old. She has lived in France ever since.
She stopped renewing her U.S. passport when she was in her early 20s, and thought that meant she was no longer American. Until 2010. That’s when the retired hotel marketing consultant got a letter from her bank telling her that because she was born in the U.S., she had to fill out forms for the Internal Revenue Service. She ignored it.