Mohammad Hussaini has lived most of his life in the United States. He talks and thinks mostly like an American that is, until the time came for him to choose a wife. He decided not to follow American traditions, and asked his parents to choose his future wife. This is the tradition in the country where he was born, Afghanistan. After all, he said, something as important as marriage should be left to people with experience in these things. Who would be better to make such a decision than his parents, the people he respects and trusts most in his life? Arranged marriages when someone else chooses your partner are common among people from Afghanistan, and Mohammad's parents already had a special girl in mind. Her name was Hameeda, the daughter of an old friend of theirs. The problem was that she lived in California, almost five hours by plane from Mohammad's home in New York. The two families sent lots of mni to aach other discussing the matter When they finally met