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“A star is born tonight,” Boone, New York’s manager, said on the field afterward.

The 21-year-old, born in a Paris suburb, may be basketball’s most worldly superstar, spending his free time playing chess, sketching and poring through 1,000-page novels.

He was born during his father’s stint in Montreal, and though he was largely raised in the Dominican Republic, he has often said that he considers Canada his second home.

As soon as you’re born you have trillions of bacteria on your body that you make an immune response to, notes Offit.

“Every person born in the country,” wrote Bates in late November 1862, “is, at the moment of birth, prima facie a citizen…without any reference to race or color, or any other accidental circumstance.”