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Sandra, 14, married three years prior, holds her 5-month-old son, Alexander in Peten, Guatemala. She met her husband, 26, when she was just 11. “I don’t have parents, I grew up with my aunt and uncle after my father died. My mother moved to another community. She abandoned me,” she said. “I would like to have a girl for my next baby. I would like her to study.”

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Sandra, 14, married three years prior, holds her 5-month-old son, Alexander in Peten, Guatemala. She met her husband, 26, when she was just 11. “I don’t have parents, I grew up with my aunt and uncle after my father died. My mother moved to another community. She abandoned me,” she said. “I would like to have a girl for my next baby. I would like her to study.”