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Albania - Thethi - Pashke Sokol Ndocaj stands by a pile of firewood as her uncle lights a fire in her house.
Pashke Sokol Ndocaj stands by a pile of firewood as her uncle lights a fire in her house. Since the death of her father and brothers, Pashke has lived as a man in the ancient traditions of Avowed Virgins of Albania ('Virgjineshe' or 'Sworn Virgins'), where women 'become' men to head the family and renounce their former sex.Thethi, Albania
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