In early November a freelance journalist who writes for San Francisco Chronicle’s “On the Couch” column contacted the Afghan Coalition in search of a family to feature. Each Sunday the column features a couple in a Bay Area community whose story illuminates a culture, situation or aspect of Bay Area life. Each story includes a picture of a Bay Area couple (on their own couch) and a brief article.
Read the story published on Sunday, December 6, 2009 about a local Afghan family.
Afghan translator, family start over in Fremont by Louise Rafkin, Special to The Chronicle
“Here is another country from mine,” says Abdul-Manan, smiling, with his family circled around him. “Everybody can be different and yet live together.”
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