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Osun’s Fight Against FGM (Part 2)

By Guardian Exclusive
13 April 2018   |   3:23 pm
Earlier in their marriage, sex was a battleground and she found it difficult to be intimate. It wasn’t enjoyable for her and it really hurt. Their husbands couldn’t understand it and they argued.

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