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Imagine if you will for a moment, a young girl, somewhere between the age of eight and twelve, in the prime of her adolescence; living so far without the knowledge of neither heartache nor disappointment. Then one day out of the blue, or so it seems to her, this young girl is snatched from her safe existence and forced to endure unspeakable pain and discomfort instigated by none other than the person who has up until then kept her safe and out of harms way, her mom. She is taken to a dank, dark, foul smelling hut and forcibly stripped of all her clothing. Once stripped, this young girl is pinned down on the dirt floor, each leg spread and held wide apart in a harsh tight grip. While in this position, a midwife, with absolutely no knowledge of human anatomy or medicine, proceeds to perform an operation on her genitals; an operation that will guarantee this young girl a life of pain both physically and mentally.
With the utterance of a short prayer, so it begins…......

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