Female genital mutilation continues as change comes slowly
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February 7, 2018
BEKARREDAR, Ethiopia (AP) — The 25-year-old Kedija had her external genitalia removed and her vagina sewn up when she was just seven days old. She has faced a lifetime of pain.
"I was unable to hold my urine for long," she told The Associated Press. "I isolated myself from socializing because of that. Later when my menstruation began, because the opening was too tiny, the pain worsened even more. And after I got married it was painful to have sexual intercourse with my husband." Three childbirths later, she was diagnosed with near-fatal renal complications.
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