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Families marry off daughters to ease finances amid COVID-19

by Krista Larson
| December 14, 2020 12:30 AM

KOIDU, Sierra Leone (AP) — The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader.

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