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For 4 days every month, I wish I wasn't born a girl

Menstrual cramps are throbbing or cramping pains in the lower abdomen. [iStockphoto]

After every 28 days Mary, not her real name, wishes she wasn't born a girl.

"I always suffer from severe pain from the start of my period till the end," she says with teary eyes.

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