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Her father never sent her to school. She was seventeen years old when her uncle taught her how to read and write, and basic sums. Married at the age of nineteen. Husband went away to do a military service shortly after; couldn’t even get leave from the Army when their first child was born. She […]http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/wp-content/uploads/jasmin1-180x180.png