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AN 84-year-old Bangladeshi woman who missed out on an education after being married off at age seven has started primary school for the first time, a report said .
Former child bride Fatema Khatun, now a widow, has enrolled for classes at her local government-run primary school where her classmates are aged nine and 10.
"I kept back the pain of not being able to go to school for more than 80 long years but finally I decided that I had to try and do this," Khatun was quoted as saying by the Bengali-language Prothom Alo newspaper.
Khatun, from a remote village in southwestern Chuadanga district, 157km from the capital Dhaka, said her children and grandchildren were happy to see her fulfilling her long-held dream.
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