LOVELAND, Ohio — Near the Loveland bike trail, Hend Aldosari crouches to the ground. She picks up a leaf and turns it over in her hand. She’s been here before, but she's starting to realize she might never be back.

“It's amazing. There are so many colors,” Aldosari said. “Where I live, it’s a desert.”

Aldosari is preparing to return to Saudi Arabia after more than a decade working and studying in the Tri-State.

“We have a different culture back home,” Aldosari said. “And I felt like if I’m going to succeed, I need to go experience my emotion in a different place.”

She moved to America in 2013 and earned her master’s degree at Xavier University. She then received her doctorate at the University of Cincinnati. For almost a decade, she worked as a mental health counselor at a nonprofit n

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