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In many parts of the Philippines, there are shanty towns with terrible poverty. Men from the West with even a little bit of money travel to these sad, dilapidated areas to pay families to take their daughters away to be brides and many may mere hundreds of dollars to do so. The families actually count the money on the floor with great glee as if they hit the lotto. Some of the girls are as young as 12, vying for attention.