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The taliban come to Golestan and take all the food, Nur, and Baba-jan with them.
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Najmah's younger brother Habib is born.
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Golestan gets bombed and Mada-jan and Habib die.
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Najmah arrives in Torkhum, where she gets food.
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Najmah escapes out of Torkhum by getting into a truck full of pears.
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Najmah arrives in peshawar and gets out of the truck of pears to almost get caught by the guard who is guarding the truck.
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Najmah meets Nusrat for the first time and Nusrat lets Najmah live with her. She also lets Najmah study with the other kids in her school.
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After her uncle comes looking for Najmah and Nusrat doesn't allow them to come in, she trusts Nusrat enough to speak to her.
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When they are reunited, Najmah tells Nur how her baby brother was born and how he and his mother died. Nur tells Najmah how Baba-jan was killed and how he survived.
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Nur tells Nusrat what he heard about her husband. He heard that there was an accidental bombing in the village where Nusrat's husband was staying. He heard that a medical clinic was destroyed and the a doctor died. Faiz was the only doctor in that village so Nusrat believed it was him who died.