"Everyone thinks it was so terrible, but it also meant that we are free, " one little girl remarked.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd (Rock Band): (Singing) 'Cause I'm as free as a bird, girl.

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At the local level Girl Scouts provide their services free, buy their own uniforms and pay to go to camp.

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In the 1990s, Samia Sarwar Mohmand, a young Pathan girl who wanted to marry of her own free will was shot dead in the office of Pakistan's most relentless women's rights campaigner Asma Jehangir.

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In France, any young girl, any girl who wishes to wear a veil or a headscarf may do so, it's her free choice to do so.

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