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Child Brides Photo Series Proves Girls Are Simply ‘Too Young To Wed’

When Mejgon was 11 years old, her father sold her to a married 60-year-old Afghanistan man for two boxes of heroin.

“In my whole life, I’ve never felt love,” Mejgon, who endured years of abuse, told National Geographic photographer Stephanie Sinclair when she was 16.

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