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In this Wednesday, April 6, 2016, photo, an Afghan puppeteer left, adjusts a scarf on Sesame Street's new character, a sassy, fun 6-year-old Afghan puppet girl called Zari during a recording session ahead of her television debut on Afghanistan's local production of the show in Kabul. Zari - whose name means “shimmering” in Afghanistan’s two official languages, Dari and Pashtu - made her debut on Thursday on the fifth season of Afghanistan’s local production of the show called Baghch-e-Simsim, which translates as Sesame Garden. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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