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For Post Reports producer Linah Mohammad, moving back in with her parents to weather the pandemic in Texas seemed like a harmless idea.
But then Mohammad, who is single, turned 25 — a milestone sometimes deemed “the cutoff age for eligibility” for Arab women to marry — and suddenly her parents’ involvement in her love life made things a lot more complicated.
So she decided to do something she’d never done before: let her parents arrange a date.
Mohammad’s piece originally aired on the “This American Life” episode “Twenty-five.”
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