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Evening: Meet Amina
It's 6.30pm, and though Amina just got back from her French literature class at university,
she's ready to go out again. Not that there's anything special on the agenda: a stroll, maybe
the library or an internet cafe so she can chat with friends.
She'll have Facebook responses from her cousins in France; her uncle there is funding
her education. Amina studies hard, and hopes to work in the Moroccan government like her
dad - maybe even the foreign service, though she's never been outside Morocco, and rarely
gets a chance to leave their suburb of Rabat. But she's hooked on world news, keeping up
in French, Arabic and English through the internet and satellite TV.
Tonight she'll make plans for the weekend, maybe going out to a restaurant with friends.
Amina doesn't drink alcohol personally, but some people she knows do, and she doesn't
judge them for it. As far as dating goes, she's not ready to settle down yet - there's too
much else to do first.
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