Rumeysa: Pessimism has set in. I couldn’t shake it off. It told me all was to no avail. Everything, everywhere, was illegal: the marriages, the ages. The purchase price of the girls was considered to be “bargain of the week”(...)

Pessimism has set in. I couldn’t shake it off. It told me all was to no avail. Everything, everywhere, was illegal: the marriages, the ages. The purchase price of the girls was considered to be “bargain of the week”(...)