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Palestinian exchange student in Wisconsin returns home despite violence

Published: June 30, 2023, 10 a.m.

For a brief time, Palestinian exchange student Anastasia had a window of what life as a Wisconsin teenager could be. The 15-year-old made friends playing soccer at Monroe High School. She fell in love with local coffee shops. But as WPR’s Corrinne Hess tells us, her world was shattered with a phone call.