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[REWRITTEN] It passes by in a blur. As soon as the ceremony that will liberate me starts, it ends. I stand up and look at my husband. Now, he smiles down at me and I see for the first time his beautiful green eyes. They are so dark, they look black. They have a certain light in them, though, that makes them shine. He takes my hand and we walk over to his parents. His mother is crying and his father is hugging him. I simply smile and look at the ground. I am finally married... I am finally free. -------------------------------- Hanifa: the girl who lost it all. Her mother died in childbirth, her father from a shooting, her grandmother from cancer. She is all alone. Her remaining family treats her like a modern-day Cinderella. Her life is but prison. As she graduates high school at age 17, her father's old friends offer their son, Ahab, for marriage. This is her ticket to freedom. But this is no fairy tale... and not everyone is a Prince Charming.