At the age of 10, I received news... my family had arranged my marriage to my cousin and sold me for 40,000 Afghanis [500] without my knowledge or consent.
It was the beginning of an agonising nightmare that shattered my childhood and adult life. Two years later in 2007, aged 12, I became a mother for the first time, but my child was born premature and disabled.
After months of treatment at a public hospital, my daughter recovered from jaundice. I gave birth to a son in 2019. I thought moving away...family, who had en
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