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I just can't believe that it's been almost a year since I arrived in the States. It's been very quick, seemingly quicker than waiting in a drive-through line for a restaurant.
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has been almost nine months since I arrived in the
We
are all stuck in the middle of nowhere. Millions in
Nearly six months after my arrival in the
Most
of the Iraqi refugees who recently arrived in
It's
been more than three months since I realized one of my most important dreams by
coming to the
As a child, I never thought about becoming a journalist. I never really felt pulled toward any particular field. I just loved to feel free and try new things, especially when it came to hard work.
On
a cold winter evening--Jan. 29, 2004--I was getting ready to start my first night
shift as an interpreter for the U.S. Army in
I couldn't say anything. I didn't want to blink
and waste a single moment of looking at the beach and the Pacific. I had never
seen an ocean. If I could set up a tent on the sand, I
thought, I could stay there forever. I have loved the seas, rivers, and oceans
since I studied them when I was a child. Now here I was standing on the beach
at
It's been almost a month since I arrived in the 
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