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Amina and Sarah Said, were two young amazing women with ambitions of becoming doctors after high school. Amina was eighteen years old, and Sarah was seventeen; when their father, Yaser Abdel Said, murdered them in the back of his taxicab in what was dubbed an 'honor killing' for the girls having American boyfriends. Yaser went into hiding after the murders, but he couldn't hide forever.
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