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We were all cursed. I recalled my mother once telling me that our days were doomed, that our future was forfeited and she was sorry she had brought so many of us to this world, to live a short life with no hopes of a happy ending. She birthed four girls, as have most of the other women in the family. Always girls. Only the female gender could be born from our bodies.