Layla Khalil, 57, was a woman who had come to Binghamton, New York, chasing the simple promise that ordinary mornings could stay ordinary. Iraqi-born, she had already lived through violence close to home and arrived in the United States with her husband and children believing the danger was behind them. She loved books and had worked as a librarian, and she threw herself into learning English, drawn to the immigrant aid center where people from many places practiced new words and traded small ki
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