Well, I'm trying to explain to everyone trying to tell them by my words a picture of how

the live bag and against them was but I can't find the right words.

When I'm saying it was normal everyone asking me how normal it was back before the Taliban.

It was the regular life that everyone has.

I mean, we had a home, we had a job.

We had friends, we had plans, we know we had a future.

Boshra Siddiqui is an editorial fellow at The Atlantic and I'm Claudine Bade, executive

producer of audio.

In this episode of Radio Atlantic, Siddiqui gives us a glimpse into her normal life in

Afghanistan and how that all changed in an instant.

My friends was really good part and big part of my life because I spend most of my free time

with my friends.

We were all the time shopping and there's a lot of crowd, it's super crowded and I imagine

those moments walking and sometimes I remember all the cute smile of all the people, shopkeepers

and smile, energy and everything was like you can notice those things in everyone's

face on that time.

We were spending our times in a lot of good places, going to office, I mean everyone was

trying to do something for themselves, I was a journalist, I was really in love with

my job and what I'm doing from a country and people.

So we spend our time in our favorite places, our favorite restaurants which we would love

to go to there together with our family or like cafes, going with our friends, having

your favorite drink you want and sometimes listening to music and playing the music loud

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