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The high school's seniors get to pick their parking space and paint it. It's part of a project to raise money for prom, aka one of the most fun nights of their life.

The high school's seniors get to pick their parking space and paint it. It's part of a project to raise money for prom, aka one of the most fun nights of their life.

When Wina Aaron arrived to the United States from Eritrea in 2010, around age 7, she remembers being shocked by the number of cars on the highway leading her away from the airport. Aarons family left the east-African country, which for years experienced a violent war with Ethiopia, its neighbor to the south. She lived with her mother and two younger siblings — her father had gone ahead of them to the U.S. "In my head, I thought he was just trying to leave us," she said Thursday. "Growing olde...