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In this passage, Mona explains how her family ended up living in America. Mona and her family are Iraqi immigrants who fled Saddam Hussein’s violent Ba’ath regime. The country in which her parents had come of age had all but “disappeared” by the time they started a family of their own. Their country was erased before their eyes as a corrupt but powerful regime took over. But even though Mona’s parents could not return to Iraq, they brought its “lessons”—and their family’s legacy—to their new home.
Mona’s family’s resolve in the face of government corruption and the dissolution of the…