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Mateullah, 4, rides the cart as his father Ajmal Arazem and his daughter Sumaya, 7, arrive with a donated lunch on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, at the Hollywood Casino & Hotel in Maryland Heights., just days after arriving in St. Louis. To the left is another Afghan refugee Nazir Shirzay. The Arazems were some of the lucky refugees flown out of Afghanistan in August right before the Taliban officially took control and are among more than 1,000 Afghans who are supposed to be resettled in the St. Louis region within the next year, an unprecedented wave.