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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — After being stranded in the US for many months due to border closure, “people lost hope” but the first repatriation flight on Feb. 1st “brings so much, not only to our family here but our people who are stranded, that there is hope, that our governor is bringing us home...

![Seen in this photo taken last Friday morning after the TTFAAS “Thank You” Wave along the main road at Utulei are (center) Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga — and First Lady Ella, who was among the repat-passengers, and local members of the Tagata Tutu Fa’atasi Alliance of American Samoa (TTFAAS) as well as some of the other 159 repatriated passengers who returned home on the first-repatriation flight from the US on Feb. 1st. [courtesy photo] Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga — and First Lady Ella at Thank You wave](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/lemanu_and_ttfaas.jpg?itok=YTCzVo3z)