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One Year Later, Afghanistan Is a Land of Shrugs and Sadness
Eight women squeezed into a stuffy, windowless hotel room in Afghanistan’s southeastern borderlands, their eyes filled with both fear and determination as they detailed their escape plan. “We just can’t get caught by the Taliban. They are preventing women …