Arranged marriages-when someone else chooses your life partner-arr common among people from Afghanistan, and Mohammad's parents already had a girl in mind for him. Her name was hammeeda, and she was the daughter of an old friend of their. The problem was that she lived in california, almost 5 hours by plane from their home in NewYork. The two families communicated with each other on the matter via email. A meeting of the two young people was arranged. Mohammad and Hameeda took to each other as soon as they met. Before the end of two weeks, they were married.