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Under the jacaranda tree, Miriam Njeri wraps her leso tighter around her waist. The wind doesn't care that she is in mourning. It whips through the grave with the same reckless breath that once stormed through her daughter's life.
Her daughter, Shiku, was 26, a final-year student at Egerton University. She had dreams of becoming a lawyer, of opening a practice that could offer free legal aid to underprivileged women. But those dreams were buried alongside her after a man decided she didn't have the right to say no.
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