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The 19th little princess of a local village head in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was kept to die in sunlight after labor and birth by her mom. But she survived, and perseverance when confronted with extreme hardship has described her life since. Despite the maltreatment of her family, the exploitative Russian and Taliban regimes, the murders of her dad, brother, and husband, and numerous tries on her behalf life, she rose to become the first Afghani female Parliament loudspeaker. Here, she shares her amazing storyline, punctuated by a series of poignant words she had written to her two daughters before every politics trip - words describing the near future and freedoms she dreamed of for the kids and for all your women of Afghanistan. Her storyline movingly captures the politics and cultural minute in Afghanistan, a country captured between the wish of progress and the bitter fact of history.
