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All Grown Up: Girl from 'Not Without My Daughter' Shares Her Story

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The harrowing escape from Iran of an American mother, Betty Mahmoody, and her 6-year-old daughter stunned the world in the movie, "Not Without My Daughter," starring actress Sally Fields.

But that film and the book that inspired it were told from the mother's perspective.

Now, two decades later her daughter Mahtob Mahmoody tells her own story in her new book, My Name Is Mahtob.

Click play to watch more from Mahtob Mahmoody.

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