Eid al-Adha in America is both fun and strange for me. Here, we go to the mosque, and men and women pray together. In Afghanistan, women aren’t allowed to go to the mosque, so it's special to pray with my family here. I got to stand next to my mom and watch her pray, which I couldn’t do in Kabul.
Adding to this strangeness, we don’t have our big family …
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