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The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the
Other Side of the Sky |
As a child, gazing at the high
walls around our home compound, I longed to see what lay on the other
side of my city. I never dreamed that I would see our home reduced to
rubble and would end up living on the other side of the world, in the
suburbs of a city called Chicago.
I have seen my dreams crushed, but new ones have sprouted in their
place, and some of those dreams have even come true. I have lost loved
ones but not love itself. That's what my story is about, I think. That's
the story I want to share with you now, the story of my life, so far.
- by Farah Ahmedi |
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When ABC News's
Good Morning America asked its viewers to write essays describing
true-life experiences about romance, adventure, loss, and overcoming
tremendous odds, the network never imagined receiving more than twenty
thousand pages of inspiring, heartbreaking, and hopeful stories. But
that's exactly what happened. After a panel of bestselling authors and
editors chose three finalists, America was given the opportunity to vote
on which aspiring author would have his or her story published.
The Story of My Life is the result of the most ambitious and
all-inclusive search ever conducted to discover and publish an
extraordinary life story. |
The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky
by Farah Ahmedi, Tamim Ansary / Hardcover: 256 pages / Simon Spotlight
Entertainment (2005)
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