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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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