"We were kept pure for men, and then broken in by them. And what happened to us in the meantime was completely irrelevant in the pursuit of their pleasure, or their integrity, their masculinity. Were females really valued so little? Would my own daughters face the same fate?"
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Hibo Wardere
Hibo Wardere (born 1960s) was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, underwent type III Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) at the age of six. At 18, she fled Somalia during the civil war and sought refuge in the United Kingdom in 1989.
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