The Sunday Read: ‘She’s at Brown. Her Heart’s Still in Kabul.’

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After fleeing the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, the former head of a girls' school in Kabul tries to make a new life in Canada. Written by Mellissa Fung. Read by Laura Lockwood.