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Usha Shushil Sawant says "My name was Usha Sawant but after marriage, my name changed to Usha Shushil Sawant. But then I came back to my brother's and there was a fight due to which my mother passed away. After her, my husband started staying at my brother's house and we use to stay on the first floor. So then my boyfriend said I will take you not for our marriage but for work. So he took me along and his grandmother asked me to go home and said how will you work in the city. Then I told her that I have left my house I can't go back but then my brother came to get me back and I was so scared of my brother that I didn't even come in front of him. So then things went down and my brother left in anger so the question of what has to be done with me arose. That's when they got us married but th
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