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Three days a week, Sharifa Abasi drives deep onto a military base in Quantico, Virginia.

Quantico is known as the Crossroads of the Marine Corps, but it's not the Marines. Sharifa's

there to see. It's their refugees. Hundreds of them. All from Afghanistan. All of them trying

to figure out where they're going to go from here. How overwhelming is it for you? Because

my understanding is you are Afghan as well.

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