“Imagine living in an airport… for 18 years straight. 🛫 No rent. No home. No country. That was the reality for Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the man who inspired The Terminal movie. From 1988 to 2006, he called Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport home. Slept on benches Showered in airport bathrooms Ate fast food Read newspapers Why? His asylum documents were lost. France wouldn’t let him in. Iran wouldn’t take him back. No country would claim him. So, he built a life inside Terminal 1. Reporters came. Tou