The silence in the crowded train carriage was immediately striking. So many young women, pink hats, pink overnight bags and white veils, some in shreds. One started to speak but was soon defeated by the forced croak that emerged. She slumped back into her arms, folded across the carriage table, joining three sets of folded arms a

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