"Sometimes we need to meet for two hours a week and go over everything starting with the very basics of personal space, " Mr. Irenstein said.

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If we returned, we would have to start from scratch and go through everything we went through in Iran, all over again.

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Now, almost two years since those frightening days when everything began to go so wrong so quickly, the worst is at last over for the people of Asia.

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