Her mother is a prostitute. Prostitution is the family trade. She is going to be sold into prostitution.
Poverty is why women are forced to enter the sex trade- voluntarily or otherwise- I always thought. If women could earn a livelihood elsewhere, why would they have to sell their bodies? Education should be the key to their salvation.
But apparently even that is not enough. Selling a girl today seems worth more than what a doctor can earn tomorrow.
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9 comments:
It's always shocking to be reminded that this still happens all over the world. It's heartbreaking.
B
It is a scary world we live in. Great drabble.
Dear Rayna,
What a tragedy...so sad..Hard to imagine...
Ruby
Natasha - Such a tragic, tragic loss! No thought at all to what that girl could have been had she been allowed to live a healthy life...
That is just so wrong.
I agree with everyone else this is so wrong and such a tragic lose.
Pamela JO
This is so hard for me to wrap my mind around. Sold???!! So tragic!!
Hugs
SueAnn
That is sad commentary on her life. Why even earn the scholarship? Has the riing of hopelessness to it. Very powerful drabble.
I'm always so impressed how you get right to the heart of things in only 100 words. And this one's a heart-breaker.
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