I grew up with the stories of my parents’ escape from Afghanistan…Now we’re living it.

My parents in Pakistan with my brother.

My dad was an Afghan refugee and my mom is Pakistani, but they both escaped from Afghanistan when the coup happened in the 1970s, and they had to get smuggled out. So it was it was a very similar experience in a lot of ways to what’s going on now. It was really coming full circle for me this time. There was a lot of trauma for a lot of first…