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Interpreting for Mum and Dad

Word of Mouth

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How Did You Get Here as a Five Year Old?

As a five-year-old, you had to relay the story of your parents' escape from Afghanistan. Your mum or dad would tell the story and then you would relay it for them. And so they would turn to you and say, well, how did you get here? It was definitely my mum and dad asking me to translate for them. But yeah, and it did change for like different people that we were speaking to as well. For example, one of the biggest threats that my mum faced was as a woman in Afghanistan, it was very tricky for her to leave the house by herself on chaperoned. Her interaction with the outside world was different to my dad who his

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