Her name is Sharbat Gula, and is about 30 in the last picture and 12 in the original from 1984. The photographer who took the famous picture of her was taken from a refugee camp in the Peshawar, Pakistan after she was forced from her home in the Pashtun area of Afghanistan during the Soviet-Afghan war. At 6, her parents were killed in a Soviet of her rural village, married in the late 80s, left the refugee camp in '92 and has 3 daughters survive infancy. Steve McCurry, the photographer who took her photo found her 17yrs later in 2002.
Refugees and people living in war torn regions of the world experience a life that does not particularly age you gracefully.
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