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Almost four years after being doused with acid by an unknown assailant, attorney and politician Gaumattie Singh puts up a brave face for the world while trying to regain normalcy in her life.

Singh has had nine reconstructive surgeries on her face and three surgeries on her damaged left eye so far, in a bid to secure a more normal appearance and save the vision in her eye, following the May 28, 2008 attack.

“That is the day in my life that I …..


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