A Nepalese girl participates in the Ehee festival in Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Ehee is a ceremony in which pre-adolescent girls are married to the bel fruit tree, symbolizing a Hindu God, considered as the first marriage of girls of the Newar ethnic community. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
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