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...They had to pretend they didn’t know each other," Jafar said. "The entire plane ride, they didn’t even speak to each other or have eye contact until they had left Iraq and landed in another country...
...Jafar said that it was hard for her parents to leave their own parents behind...
...can’t really go to her funeral. There’s no closure—there’s no saying goodbye—so that was difficult for my parents especially," Jafar said...
...know what my family had to endure under Saddam," Jafar said. "As an American, you wonder why it’s in American interests, and as an Iraqi, you understand that your parents and your family and your extended family endured hardship under this awful dictator...
Like other Iraqi-Americans, Jafar is hoping to help ameliorate the situation in her parents’ homeland...