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With Just His Parrot, a Refugee Boy Starts a Hard New Life

The Shah family home in a narrow gorge in the Behsud District of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, April 2, 2018. The Shah family had been forced out of the haven in Pakistan that their patriarch had found for them during the last war, against the Soviets. Now they were returning to Afghanistan, a place in the grips of a newer and longer war that has sent hundreds of thousands fleeing. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)