(CNN)With her hijab, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha may have stood out. But in every respect, she felt that she fit in -- as a proud, and blessed, American. Even if most of her North Carolina neighbors didn't wear the same Muslim head covering that she did, Mohammad believed that there were "still so many ways that I feel ... embedded in the fabric that is our culture," meaning the American culture. "That's the beautiful thing here, is it doesn't matter where you come from," she said last summer as part of NPR's StoryCorps project. "There are so many different people from so many different places, ... backgrounds and religions. But here we're all one.
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Deah Shaddy Barakat's sister says the killings should be considered terrorism
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President Obama says FBI is investigating the "brutal and outrageous murders"
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Victim Yusor Mohammad said that in America, "we're all one"
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