Yusra ☾’s Reviews > This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman > Status Update
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We had to leave. So the following morning, we fled our home—its books of Somali poetry, its collections of African art and music, as well as the safety of its walls. Baba and two of my uncles went to my great-grandmother’s house. I didn’t get to say goodbye to her, because the rest of our family immediately embarked on the journey to get out of Somalia.
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— Dec 10, 2025 01:22PM
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“Leave me alone; I want my space” has no place in the traditional Somali family, where it is normal for everybody to be in your business and for you to care what they thought.
im cryingggg this is so true
— Dec 22, 2025 07:35PM
im cryingggg this is so true
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As the war went on, there was no more news, no school, no mosque, no hospitals. Everything was taken over and repurposed into makeshift dwellings for those fleeing violence.
this is literally the way my dad described it
— Dec 10, 2025 01:15PM
this is literally the way my dad described it
