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Help her?




“My face is BURNING”
Never before did she scream that way. Three middle-aged men stood beside her grinning, showing off their yellow teeth between the parted brown lips.
“HELP ME. I don’t want...”
She fainted.

She opened her eyes in the Burn ward. They said it took two weeks of intense care to bring her back to senses.
“Get her a pen and paper”, the officer commanded.
“I can speak. BURN them” She could see no more but in her eyes, fury was explicit.
“We assure you that. Tell us what had happened”, the officer spoke gentle.
“That night, I was asleep in my room when I woke up with...” She coughed.
“...Men talking” She coughed again.
“Rape...Acid...” She breathed heavily.

Her eyes rolled up. She turned pale.

Who were they? Educated illiterates.
How is taking away her face (and life), happiness to them?
I don’t know the answer to this but tell them, beauty is a great source of masturbation and that would have been perpetual. Is that is how we can stop them?
No books, no family could.
Authorities? Hah! I guess I already made you laugh.

Women_Beauties, inside-out. Shame that we ‘plead’ for respect.
How can hatred land into such brutality? The deceased is not the sole sufferer. Lives are connected.

And rape? Acid? ACID?  Who could have had thought of bringing our lab chemicals to such use! Revenge, Hatred, Jealousy_They have brought up astonishing ideas.

Her fault was, those men had a weak, a vulnerable heart. Poor enough, for not being able to endure that vengeance.

Did I tell you she was 13? 








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