diarre ba used to make a living as a female circumciser. >> i was part of this process. i felt bad. this is not right. i felt bad, but didn't know anything at the time. i had no learning. >> others have painful, vivid memories. brah saare was very close to an older sister growing up. he walked into her room one evening -- >> i saw her lying in a pool of blood i thought someone had really hurt her. . i screamed. my father explained to me. since then, even now i get goose bumps thinking about it. >> it's very painful. i will never-you ask if i can forget it. i can never forget the pain. so painful. >> she is a long-time campaigner against genital cutting, and she's spared her 10-year-old daughter the trauma. yet before she became involved with tostan and early in her marriage, she was determined to keep up the tradition. even her own husband was opposed to genital cutting. >> she insisted that what she had to do it. there were so many problems if you didn't do it. if you cooked meals, no one would eat your food. it's because we didn't know. people told us that it was our religion. if