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Nov 6, 2006 was a quiet morning in Baghdad. Noor Ghazi and her family had packed what they could into the car and jumped on the road as early as possible. It was Ghazi's 16th birthday, but there was no time to celebrate. They had only one goal in mind: getting to the border with Syria. Since US troops rolled into Baghdad three years earlier, the Ghazis had lived through the worst of Iraq's brutal civil war. Noor remembered passing dead bodies lying in the streets during her walk to school. Grief became a regular part of the teenager's daily life. Wherever Ghazi went, she paid close attention to her surroundings, knowing that at any moment a car bomb or stray bullet could set off chaos. She said her school started getting emptier and emptier. Every day, one of her friends would come in and say her last goodbyes because she was leaving the country. Ghazi's father had no intentions of following their lead. She remembered her dad used to say that he would be the last person to leave Iraq.

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