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At 15 years old, Tariro* should still be in Form Two.<\/p>\n
Instead, she spends her mornings carrying water from a shallow borehole in Mbire District while balancing her infant son on her back. Her school uniform hangs folded in a small suitcase beneath her bed.<\/p>\n
“When my parents failed to pay school fees, I stopped going regularly,” she says quietly. “Then I started seeing a man who helped me with food and money.”<\/p>\n
Within months, she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
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