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The Non-Being
A Journey from Child Marriage to Widowhood in Rural India
“Every moment in a woman's life was a deal, a deal for her body: first for its blooming and then for its wilting; first for her bleeding and then for her virginity and then for her bearing (counting only the sons) and for her widowing."
--Shoba Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
"Sometimes, when the others are not home, I read my old school books and hold my baby and cry." .
--Komal Pandey
"When I was officially a married woman, I cried."
"After my husband’s death, I was stripped away from my own identity."
--Rinku Kumari
--Sadia Agarwal
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