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A Matter of Fact.(abortion)(Personal account)

Feminist Studies

| September 22, 2008 | Arcana, Judith | COPYRIGHT 2008 Feminist Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

What? Ah. Ah. Well, as a matter of fact, yes. I have. I did. I mean, I did have an abortion, younger than you are now, about six months after my fifteenth birthday. And I never did tell your grandma and grandpa--that's how I know there's things you don't tell me. I kept thinking I would tell them later. Later, I thought, you know, there'd be a good time to tell them, a time that would feel right. But no time like that ever seemed to come around. I never meant to never tell them all my life, to keep it a secret all my life. How about I tell you about it, right now? Maybe that'll make up for it-do you think it could work that way? Oh, don't look so worried; this is a good ...

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