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Tricia Silberman

How a Young Afghan Girl Almost Got Sold in Marriage to Pay Family’s Debt

Lifestyle & Belief

A six year-old girl in a Kabul refugee camp who was going to be sold in marriage to pay off a debt to cover the cost of her mother’s hospital care. But “an anonymous donor working through an American lawyer had paid the debt.”

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