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Lately I’ve been captured by the story of the woman at the well from John’s gospel (John 4:1–30, 39–42). You may know her as a shameful, fallen woman—the woman of many husbands now living in adultery who visits the well in the heat of the day to avoid the villagers’ looks of judgement and stifled whispers.

In 1998, Mehran Karimi Nasseri, an Iranian refugee flying to England, discovered he had lost his official refugee papers during a layover in France. Without his papers or a passport, Nasseri could not board a plane for England. Lacking the correct documentation, he also couldn’t leave Charles de Gaulle Airport and enter France. For 18 years, Nasseri lived in Terminal One as officials worked to resolve his case.