I asked my brother, Nathaniel, how he was getting acclimated to his new school. “It’s a ghost-town, Stephanie,” he replied, “everybody left.” My brother was referring to the American embassy kids who had left.
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For years, Afghan officials have condemned Taliban’s attacks, but have hesitated to condemn them as a group.
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In late May 2015, my father and I traveled to the provincial town of Ustyuzhna, Russia to deliver the gravestone of a deceased relative.
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