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Old 09-11-2008, 11:07 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ktspktsp View Post
I was also planning on applying to US universities that year for my Master's degree, and I wondered if those attacks were gonna close those doors to me. Thankfully the doors remained open and I moved to the US in August 2002. And despite being treated differently at US airports, thankfully no American I've met was openly hostile towards me because of those events.
Of course, you did have to endure your future mother-in-law asking you point blank, over a nice steak dinner on your first visit to Seattle, "So do you know where Bin Laden is hiding?" after you sketched a map of your country for her on a napkin just to explain where you came from...
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