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A woman sits quietly making a blanket. Her dry, cracked hands work quickly. She slowly looks up. Her dark eyes fill with tears.

She does not even notice the village or people around her.

She cannot stop thinking about her husband and her sons. She looks back down at her work. Bibi Sherin lives in Khoistan, Afghanistan. This place was on the front line of many battles.

And Bibi and her family experienced a hard life because of this. Bibi was married for six years. She had four strong sons with her husband.

But her husband died in a battle with the Russians.

Women whose husbands die - widows - have a difficult life in Afghanistan. Bibi did not know what to do. How would she support her sons? Bibi took any work she could find. She cooked for other people. She washed clothes for them.

But most people in the village were poor too. They could not pay her very much.