The shame and ridicule were more than she could bear. She wrote, “I was no good. I had messed up. I knew it. My dreams and life were shattered. Days later, I was married off and sent away. I said I did not love this man. I was told, ‘You made your bed; now you must lie in it.’”

She went on to recount the damage to her self-esteem, which she called “life threatening,” and described being ostracized and condemned as a bad girl, though she had tried all her life to do well and make her parents proud.