Love, actually ... isnt all around

Published: Dec. 29, 2020, 5:01 p.m.

A story of love and family \u2014 and deadlines. 
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For Post Reports producer Linah Mohammad, moving back in with her parents to weather the pandemic in Texas seemed like a harmless idea. 
But then Mohammad, who is single, turned 25 \u2014 a milestone sometimes deemed \u201cthe cutoff age for eligibility\u201d for Arab women to marry \u2014 and suddenly her parents\u2019 involvement in her love life made things a lot more complicated.
So she decided to do something she\u2019d never done before: let her parents arrange a date.
Mohammad\u2019s piece originally aired on the \u201cThis American Life\u201d episode \u201cTwenty-five.\u201d 
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