In 1988, a frightened 6-year-old fled tumult in Iran and boarded a jetliner on a journey to France and later America.
The kindness of strangers — flight attendants — provided some solace for Artemis Bayandor, who was leaving the world she knew behind.
The Naperville resident paid it forward 33 years later, on a United Airlines plane empathizing in Farsi with shellshocked families escaping Afghanistan.
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