Al-Obeidi arrived in New York at the end of July and
with the help of a refugee agency, she was resettled
in Colorado.
She has no family in the United States, and she
would perhaps like to return to her homeland one
day.
"Of course, there is no one who doesn't wish to go
back to his country," she said. "But I am not mentally
ready for that. I also feel personally I am not ready to
integrate back into society, I am not ready. I feel life
is hard for me because it is different -- in culture ...
language -- everything is different here."
Al-Obeidi cannot know the twists and turns her life
will take from here. She wants to finish schooling.
Marry. Five years from now, she pictures herself as a
mother.
One thing she knows though. If and when she returns
home, it will be to a Libya without Gadhafi.
She just wishes Gadhafi had met proper justice. She
felt his killers did him a favor by ending his life. In
the eyes of some, he became a martyr.
"They shouldn't have given him this honor," she said.
He should have been tried for his crimes, she said --
for what he did to the people of Libya, for what he did
to her.
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