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"See me now, 

your severed daughter..."

"Mak, how much of my clitoris was cut off?

Was it the size of a fingernail?  Half a nail? 

A pea? Half a pea?"

Mak sent me a video to assuage me. 

Why can't I cut my hair or nails while on my period?

Mom: When you die, all these parts of you will come back to you, so the belief is that when you cut them off in this state of impurity, it will come back to you dirty.

Even if your body is clean, these parts of you are not. That's why if you cut your hair and nails, you have to clean them at the end of your cycle before throwing them away.

What about the tip of my clitoris you had cut off? 

Mom: That...I'm not sure...

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