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An Afghan girl holds a skateboard showing the name of Afghanistan's first skateboarding school, at a skateboarding event in Kabul June 21, 2009. It was an unlikely scene in the Afghan capital
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He taught skateboarding in Afghanistan, and when forced to flee, brought his love of the board to Phillything in Afghanistan. But brought his love of skateboarding to Philly
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