Daily Archives: October 4, 2012

A 12-year-old girl’s reaction to child marriage: A Collage

  Zoe L. Daniels

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Originally posted on Reflections:
By Noel A. Ihebuzor the child as mother smothers childhood the murdered mind weeps when torture is garbed as culture, a deadening deaf culture deaf to pleas and protests pleas of despair the despair of the innocent,…

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bride price

when she was 7 my daughter started second grade her bedroom purple & pink with Barbies & plush. she kept a dollhouse & not very well how is a girl as young as 7 a wife, except to play house with … Continue reading

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rewind

life moves faster in rewind– the extraneous peeled off the essential things but perhaps it cannot erase how your kisses tasted like wild strawberries, sweet with a little sting

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