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She Shattered

“A girl is just like this clear, glass vase: If the vase gets cracked for any reason, you can never fix it or glue it back. It will always be seen as cracked … and who would want a cracked vase?”

That’s the story Dima Ghawi’s grandmother told her when she was only 5 years old, a metaphor intended to demonstrate the, was born.

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