"I had more music to choose from," she says with a little laugh, fixing buckles and doing whatever else Sonia needs from her. "I knew a lot of war ballads, though. The Irish had a bunch of songs about love and war."

And even if the Greenes had been Americans for over a century, they were Irish, too--in her father's heart, always. "You start to miss being able to turn a song on whenever you want to, don't you?"