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    <title>In the US, Hope for Victims of Genital Mutilation | Newsweek.com</title>
    <author>michael</author>
    <article_url>http://www.contribune.org/articles/81</article_url>
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    <created_at>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:36:43 -0400</created_at>
    <image_url>http://www.contribune.org/assets/articles/photo/81/small/fgm-reversal-surgery-wide-horizontal.jpg</image_url>
    <synopsis>&quot;This May, Sila, now 38 years old, underwent a simple but profound operation to undo the past. She traveled to Trinidad, Colorado, where Dr. Marci Bowers, a gynecological and pelvic surgeon, has recently begun to perform &quot;clitoralplasty&quot; or &quot;female circumcision reversals&quot; on African women.&quot;</synopsis>
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