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CHAUPADI

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Sauri, left, and her sister-in-law Birma, reflect in the spot where Sauri's 17-year-old daughter Laxmi burned to death nine months before while sleeping in a chaupadi shed in an area far from the family's home near Dhakari village, Achham, Nepal. "I have many daughters," said Sauri, "but she was the one who was always with me." The family since destroyed the shed.
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CHAUPADI
Sauri, left, and her sister-in-law Birma, reflect in the spot where Sauri's 17-year-old daughter Laxmi burned to death nine months before while sleeping in a chaupadi shed in an area far from the family's home near Dhakari village, Achham, Nepal. "I have many daughters," said Sauri, "but she was the one who was always with me." The family since destroyed the shed.