When she flees back to her parents, they will not take her, because her "place" is with her husband. Devi is forced into sex by her 33-year-old husband while still a child, as her mother-in-law listens in the next room. (Caste is sometimes a matter of small privileges everyone in the village draws water from the same well, but the higher castes have a pulley that makes it easier.) Practices that are crimes in much of the world are accepted practices, apparently, in this area. Torn weeping from her mother's arms, she was used by her husband as a beast of burden, and taunted by the higher castes of the village where she now lived. One of six children from a poor family, she was married at the age of 11, to a man who gave her parents a cow, and threw in a bicycle.
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