| Alawia
"I think the bravest thing I ever had to do in my life was to come from that culture and decide to make a home in America – a culture that’s totally different from everything I know. Sometimes I feel like I’m a person who is living almost two parallel lives. I think this is some of the struggle also immigrant families go through. We come from a different culture. We try to accommodate another culture – become this person of a third culture."
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Alawia was born in northern Sudan in the late 1950s, the 7th of 10 children. She received her medical license in Sudan in the late 1970s and came to the US to join her husband who was studying at Indiana University. She and her family settled in Pennsylvania where she currently practices as a pediatrician. She has two grown children.
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