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  By: Lindsey Hahn   “Take the first step, and the second will follow.” This is the advice of Fati, an Iranian woman who for years dreamed of immigrating to the United States. When Fati was 11 years old, she remembers walking down the street and being ridiculed by an officer about her hair showing through her scarf. Growing up in a traditional, conservative society, she wasn’t afforded many of the rights that women experience in other parts of the world, like showing her hair in public. She lived in fear of breaking any rules and muddying her family’s reputation...

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