She faced both affection and loathing during her few short years in the public eye, before her life was tragically cut short at a very young age.

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At the same time, Todenhofer was starting to wonder if there wasn't a downside to plucking a frightened and anxious girl from a shanty town on the edge of Baghdad and exposing her to life in the West in short bursts that were hard for her to make sense of.

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While the program did not protect her from the dangers of life in Kabul, I wholeheartedly believe her participation increased the quality of her short life.

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In short, she has lived her life the way she has wanted to.

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Instead, her life was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire outside a Safeway supermarket.

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She made more friends in her short time in Greenwich, her eulogy noted, than many people make their whole life.

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Rachel expresses reservations -- it does not escape her eye that there is no non-Caucasian in the room -- but life is short and she is willing to give it a shot.

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