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Chaïbia Talal
“A message of hope to all women”
Some people experience too much, too young. Chaïbia Talal was only 13, living in the small village of Chtouka near El Jadida, Morocco, when she was forcibly married to a seventy year old man. A year later she became a mother, and the year after that her decrepit husband died and left her a widow at 15 years old. For the next ten years she worked as a maid to support her son, El Houcine, and was called mahboula—the crazy girl, for her dreamy nature. read more