Word: hamidi
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...That is a life 26-year-old Rangina Hamidi managed to escape. Her family left Kandahar in 1979, and after 10 years as refugees in Pakistan, ended up in the U.S. Her father became an accountant, and Rangina went to the prestigious University of Virginia. In her sophomore year, though, she started wearing a head scarf, puzzling her American friends and perturbing her liberal relatives. "I was very comfortable in America," she says, "but I always felt there was something missing." After the Taliban fell in 2001, Rangina said goodbye to her friends and family members, got on a plane...