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Marco Rubio’s father poured drinks in a hotel bar. His mother cleaned rooms. They came from Cuba with little except the conviction that America was the kind of place where that could be enough. It was. Their son became a United States senator and then secretary of state. By any measure, that is the American story at its most elemental.