![]() ![]() Here’s one example of advice for her daughters, a reminder to have faith in their dreams:īut perhaps the worst thing that can happen to any woman is to lose yourself. Her wisdom and insight for her daughters in her letters goes well alongside her own biography. The insight from the letters she writes to her daughters-letters about love, loss, family, and childhood-are personally touching in their brevity and hope for a better future for her country. Despite these challenges, she is hopeful and continues to live her life with steely resolve-the trials are a part of her life, but not ones that predominate or ones she ruminates over. ![]() She describes her own trials throughout her adult life: her husband and brother are jailed by Taliban leaders soon after her marriage, her supportive husband succumbs to tuberculosis as her role with UNICEF increases in prominence, she receives threats regularly as a female politician. Koofi’s “favored” status continues as she marries the man of her and her mother’s choosing, works as an English teacher, becomes the first Afghani woman to work for UNICEF in Afghanistan, and eventually wins the support of her family to run for a seat in Afghanistan’s new parliament. But sometimes I’m just a silly girl and I make mistakes…If I arrive home later than usual, I still expect you to be waiting in the yard for me with your burqa. Even now my breath catches in my throat when I remember that you are not in this world. ![]() I still wait and hope that you will come back. ![]()
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