article_snippet.sent: Growing up, My mother told My mother 'horror stories' about women who had never married because they hadn't been cut.
article_snippet.sent: Other negative stereotypes were also attached to women who had not had the procedure.
article_snippet.sent: While I was cleaning the mess up, an older woman said to an older woman "you didn't have the cut". '
article_snippet.sent: an older woman did not say this with anger or as a joke; an older woman said it as a matter of fact, because an older woman doesn't know differently.'
article_snippet.sent: an older woman said: 'I grew up not knowing that I was different, or that being cut was not normal for every other girl in the world.
article_snippet.sent: Before I saw the nurse I didn't notice any difference in my body as I'm the same as other girls from my home town. '