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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
World
Brian Osgood

Afghan refugees struggle to adjust to life in the US

Saliha has been missing her husband of more than four decades, who she has not seen since she left Afghanistan last year [Brian Osgood/Al Jazeera]

San Jose, California, United States – Zainab, a teenager from Afghanistan who has lived in a cramped California motel room with her family for nearly a year, still has scars on her wrist from the shattered glass of a suicide bombing.

She and her sister, Zahra, are trying to quickly learn English so they can find work and help their family cover the sky-high cost of rent in San Jose.

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