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Razia's Ray of Hope Bookfair Readers Along with the birthday excitementRazia is excited when her grandfather tells her there's a school for girls being built in their Afghan village. At last, girls will have the same opportunity to be educated as boys. Every night I fell asleep dreaming about going to school like my brothers, she says. Her grandfather wants Razia to enroll in the school. He remembers a time, before the wars and the Taliban, when educated women in Afghanistan became doctors, government workers and