Safe in Chicago but never far from their flight
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By Fariba Pajooh When Soghra Ataee and her four children go grocery shopping in Chicago, they melt into the crowd. Their tortuous 7,500-mile, 15-year journey to get here from Afghanistan is their private secret. But the memory of that trip never escapes them. “I have been like a stray cat, picking my children up in […]