"Let me remind you of something. Do the words 'three hundred dollars' sound familiar? Your virginity was sold for three hundred dollars."Before a slav... auction, to entice buyers to come, there is often a girl made available for everyone's use. They draw even bigger crowds when they advertise that it will be a virgin's deflowering. It is quite a show."The guests buy a ticket for a dollar, or get in for free if they bring a new person to the auction. They draw names to see who goes first for her. Offerings are given to shrines the village elders made in the woods, food, clothes and handmade gifts are left at the base of stacked stones. The elders told us that this will appease her and keep her from coming into the village to take us away, she will bless our crops and stop the famine.I look at my husband Callum, then to our child resting asleep on his chest, he tries to wave at me but daren’t wake him. We are thankful to have met the woman in the woods.I met him at a village festival, we. I don't care what everyone says.Throwing some makeup on me and putting me in a uniform won't make me looklike you. And that's not the end of it. Girls walk and talk differentlythan guys. I don't know how to act like you. I don't know how to be agirl. I don't think 3 months of training will get me there." I'll train you on how to act like me! By the end of three months, no onewill be able to tell the difference. I promise. By the way, I hate to dothis to you, but I'm willing to go so far as. Do not speak unless spoken too and slowly undress, wear the collar and shoes they sent you.Hands shaking you slowly let everything fall away. You drop your jacket on the floor and you forget bout your yelling k**s, you slowly slide your blouse down your arms and bad day at work fades away, your skirt pools round your feet and unpaid bills are tomorrows worries, stepping away from the pile of clothes the screaming world is left behind. It all falls away.But your still you, the strong woman that.