“I like to write poems in English,” Awad said.
Awad was a 10th-grader at Loy Norrix High School in November 2020 and came to Kalamazoo from Palestine with her family about four years before. She was a star student, getting A’s in all her classes; and she dreamed about growing up to be a physician’s assistant.
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