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I felt like a 'sub-par woman'
British-Ghanaian Marian Kwei felt "ostracised" by her community because she wasn't able to conceive.
She has endometriosis which can make it unlikely, or even impossible, that you will get pregnant.
She tells BBC Minute some of the hurtful things people used to say to her.
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