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In Kenya, a refuge from female circumcision.(WORLD)
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The Christian Science Monitor
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March 13, 2008
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Byline: Scott Baldauf Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Narok, Kenya -- Five years ago, when Millicent was 13 years old, her father told her it was time to leave school and get married. But first, he said, the Masai adolescent must be circumcised.
Millicent had her own ideas; she had learned at a recent village workshop about the dangers of female circumcision and early marriage. But her family was unsympathetic. "I was circumcised, your mother was circumcised," her grandmother told Millicent. Fighting back tears, she explains, "In my community, it is difficult for a girl who is not circumcised to get married."
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