When Jen Owens opened her door to two refugee families for Thanksgiving dinner in 2008, little did she realize where that open door would lead.
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“Around our table sat some of the most recent Nepali-Bhutanese asylees, full of hope for a new and better life,” Owens remembers. “Yet despite their glowing hope, I couldn’t stop thinking, ‘What would life realistically look like for a widow with two school-aged children, no English and little formal education?’”
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