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SHE

'Hush little baby, don't say a word...' she crooned, patting her giant belly.

The baby kicked its little foot from inside, making her wince.

'She'll be so pretty!' Naira beamed at her husband who was reading a newspaper nearby.

'It'll be a he!' he mumbled disinterested.

Naira bit her lips and didn't say a word. How could they tell them what the gynecologist had told her?

She was going to bring in a daughter into this world.

She sighed, getting up.

'Take care of yourself and my little boy!' Kishore smiled at her.

Naira faltered in her steps, turned around and gave a dry smile. Her tongue felt like sandpaper.

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'Don't do heavy work girl,' Renubala chided as Naira brought in the fruits. Her mother-in-law was holding a Laxmi puja in her house.

'It's okay.' Naira mumbled.

'No harm should come to my Krishna!' Renubala commented, closing her eyes in prayer.

Naira looked helplessly at the silent idol of the Goddess.

'Give me strength, Maa.' she pleaded.

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'What are you naming him?' the overexcited neighbours were chirping.

Naira's head ached with all the noise.

'How about Rahul, or Shyam or...' another lady was ticking off boy names.

'Durga! I'll call you Durga!' the mother whispered to her unborn child.

'See you all. Hope with your blessings its a boy this time.' Renubala commented.

'Surely it'll be, Didi. It was a girl the other time no?'

A chill ran down Naira's spine. She felt nauseated and sick to the core.

Those monsters had killed her unborn child because it had been a girl. Those hypocrites will worship a Goddesss for money and prosperity and will destroy millions of innocent fetuses before they can even grow.

She threw up silently in the toilet, not wanting to face anyone else.

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The world seemed dark and spinning empty. She woke up cold, to a feeling of lightness.

'Where's the baby?' she mewed weakly.

Her husband was sitting beside her, stone faced.

'It was a SHE!' he hissed.

'What did you do to her?' Naira wailed.

'We dropped her in the garbage van.'

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A/N Millions of girls are killed in India still as female feticide and infanticide and a few more are left or dumped to die in garbage. The girl child is still seen as a burden to be sold off go the boy and they are often the victims of severe discrimination. Don't let this happen. Stand up to protect the SHE.

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