Some people in my family didn't think it was such a good idea.

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My family didn't have the slightest tie to music.

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Dr. MADHI: I didn't want to reveal my identity because my family was living in Iraq and I didn't want it - didn't want to appear that I'm connected to the Western media because my fear on my family, not really on my life.

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But I love my family and my community, and I didn't want leaving to be the answer.

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"Even though I'm very comfortable materially now, my mindset is still that of somebody whose family didn't have enough money to put meat on the table, " says Sennett.

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While my family and friends cared that I was unhappy, they didn't truly understand what was bothering me.

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"I felt like by asking for death, it's like asking for assisted suicide, and I didn't want to do that to my family, " she told the AP.

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My family lived with neighbours who were Sunni and Shia but we didn't know what religion they were until after the war.

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"I really didn't want to know the truth or anything about my real family, " she recalls.

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"My worry is there is another family that is going to suffer the loss that I did because their son didn't have the proper training, the proper armament, the proper munitions to do his job, " he later tells me.

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