For a few years now off and on, I have been corresponding on yahoo with a young girl in her mid 20s from Kurdish Iraq. She is a college student in Erbil, Ive spoken with her on the phone, Ive seen her on webcam once or twice, things have been very friendly. She is a happy, optimistic, sweet and engaging girl very interested in american culture and the world in general, it is in fact clear to me she is headed towards coming to America at some point (not for anything involving me) for a career. She is Kurdish, she has seem very bad times under Saddam, and when we invaded in 2003, she was ecstatic. In 2003 she was wild-eyed about the prospect of a "free and democratic KURDISTAN".
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