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Why It’s hard to take a cut woman to ‘cloud nine’

Sometime last year, I made an impromptu visit to my land of origin: Kuria.
You see, my people ‘cut’ women. This is a practice that has been passed from one generation to another. A woman is considered a child for as long as she has not faced the circumciser’s knife.

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