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The Pearl That Broke Its Shell tells the stories of two women in Afghanistan born a century apart. Rahima is a young girl born in rural Afghanistan during the early 2000s, when warlords are fighting for control of the countryside. She is one of five daughters, with an abusive, drug addicted father, thus her mother decides to make her into a bacha posh, a girl who dresses like a boy. She is then allowed to more freely run errands for her mother and is also gets a taste of all the freedoms of bein
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