Tangential but somewhat related.
Good for her.
I'm all for arranged marriages if all sides consent. But if daughter refuses and parents get all pissy about it, tough crap on them. Go live your American dream first gen. Your immigrant parents inevitably come with some baggage, not all good.
I escaped an arranged marriage to my cousin by joining the Air Force
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For one Maryland girl, the American Dream came at a heavy price.
Back when Hamna Zafar, 23, was just a teenager, her family flew to Pakistan for what she believed was a routine visit with relatives. Instead, she found herself in the middle of her own engagement party to a man — her cousin — handpicked by her immigrant parents.
Rather than give up on her life in the United States, Zafar hatched a plan — to fly the coop and join the Air Force. She got her freedom, but she lost her family.
She was 19 at the time.
“I thought it was a normal family trip. Then I saw the jewelry, the dresses,” Zafar, who grew up in the United States in a traditional Muslim family, told People.
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