At least, I am fortunate to have an education which they lack. These girls get married at a very early age with little or no education. Trafficking of women is also rampant here.

It was like a hidden vault had been opened. All those comments that had never hurt her then now came cascading out. 

She couldn’t for the life of her see the goodness around because she had shut her heart to the bright sun and enveloped herself in a dark veil of despair.

I married him only after he promised me he would let me work and he did keep his promise! He ensured I worked in his home and around his routine.

I had been so caught up in my complex relationship with my father, which had been contentious even at the best of times, that I hadn’t realized how well she knew and understood me.