Remember this?

Growing up, my dad got National Geographic in the mail every month.  The yellow spines would line our bookcases.  He had so many they would also spill out from the shelves under the end tables as well as the magazine rack in the bathroom.  And like a million other Americans, I was always mesmerized by the photo of the Afghan Girl.  The original story ran in 1985, I was not even born yet.  But I remember looking at the picture and thinking about how crazy her eyeballs were.  Then in 2002, National Geographic went and found her in the hills of Afghanistan.  Remember?  It felt like such an important story.