“When they were taking me out to be cut it was celebratory. My mother, though, was crying — she was saying ‘I wish they could do away with it.’ But my mother didn’t have a choice. Her role as a mother was to prepare a proper girl for marriage, to prepare a daughter to be a good wife. Otherwise nobody would marry her.”
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