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Beautiful sisters who can’t stop eating soap

Sharon Jepchirchir 24, Lidia Chepkemboi 17 and Monica Jebet (mother) at Kibochi village in Nandi County yesterday. The two sisters have been eating bar soaps since their childhood. (Peter Ochieng, Standard)

Sharon Chepchirchir basks in the sun outside her mother’s house in Kibochi village, Nandi.

A few minutes later, Chepchirchir, 24, takes out a bar of soap from her jacket.

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