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February 8, 2025: A small girl from Newar community receives bael fruit during a religious procession of Bel Bibaha or Ihi ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 8, 2025. Bel Bibaha, or Ihi, is a marriage ceremony in the Newar community of Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are ''married'' to the bael fruit (wood apple). Girls from Newar community are married thrice in their life, to the bael fruit and the sun before marrying a human. (Credit Image: © Sunil Sharma/ZUMA Press Wire)
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