Memories of a Girl From North Country

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This video takes People You Think You Know in a slightly different direction. One of the original impulses in starting this project was to explore how every aspect of our lives make up who we are, and make us ever so slightly (or incredibly) different from everyone else. This way, there are as many cultures on earth as there are people - making us all immigrants in each others' lives. As I concentrate on my relationship (and the U.S.'s) to Iran, I also intend to take a look at some other case studies in immigration. This entry begins the story of my girlfriend: a traveler from Alaskan winters who finds herself in an unlikely relationship with a boy from a land of pomegranates and the world's oldest cypress tree.