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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY INEST BEL AIBA Egyptian bride and groom Amer Ezeddin and Injie Mohammed Serag sit on a bench on stage during their wedding party in Cairo on December 9, 2008. Exasperated by the pressures of a society obsessed with marriage and the production of children, a young Egyptian woman has come to the rescue of her country’s stigmatised spinsters. Egyptian journalist and feminist blogger Yomna Mokhtar Mokhtar started a group on Facebook social network in support of single women in Egypt, a patriarchal society that views unmarried women incomplete. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD ABDEL MAGEED (Photo credit should read AHMAD ABDEL MAGEED/AFP/Getty Images)