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I arrived in Afghanistan last week with my Refugees International colleagues to assess the needs of displaced people in this war-torn country. This is my first visit to Afghanistan, and it defies expectations. 

Yes, there are the obvious signs that I am in a country at war â€" soldiers on the streets, the constant drone of helicopters overhead, an abundance of barbed wire and security barricades everywhere you look. On my fourth day in Kabul, there was a suicide bombing a block away from where we went for a meeting just a few hours later. 

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