Nada told her story of escaping Taliban Afghanistan in her honors student graduation speech at Brattleboro Union High School. Her story was evocative, vivid.
Nada's story is ours.
Surely those wonderful Brattleboro folks who helped Nada, and all of our other new refugee neighbors, could feel the shared connections.
In this country, most of us are immigrants, and many of us - or our ancestors - are refugees.