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Before learning to walk, talk or eat Soile Ene Martine had a husband assigned. Even before she was born it was already decided how would have been her life. Soile is a masai. Her mother gave birth to her alone in a hut. Her father, according to tradition, did not know her that 10 days after her birth. Possibly it was then that a village elder spat it out in head to bless her. Yet we don’t know when did her luck finish. Perhaps the day that did not escape ablation, that more than half of the women of her village still suffer, although this practice is prohibited in her country, Kenia. Or maybe the good fortune ended when her father chose her husband, 17 years older than her. And today, the day of her marriage, she cries. When she gets out from the house where she spent her childhood she must not look back or the god of the Masai will turn her into stone. In the house of his future family his new relatives will welcome her with insults and dung, to strengthen her character. Then it’s time to share a goat stew with her husband and seal so the compromise. His wife is called Simintei Ole Saipiri. Soile is not neither the first nor the only wife. He wants to have children with her as soon as possible. Children that Soile will give birth alone in a hut.
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