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The day the music died: Afghanistan's all-female orchestra falls silent
Negin Khpalwak was sitting at her home in Kabul when she got word that the Taliban had reached the outskirts of the capital.
The 24-year old conductor, once the face of Afghanistan's renowned all-female orchestra, immediately began to panic...
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