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Chapter 14

I kept going to fertility appointments alone.

Not because I was trying for a baby.

Because I wanted my body back from everyone else’s opinions.

Dr. Patel, my reproductive endocrinologist, was kind.

Direct.

She confirmed again that my results were healthy.

Then said something I never forgot.

“You are more than your ability to carry a child. But I understand why you needed proof after being told otherwise.”

I cried in her office.

She handed me tissues like she had done it a thousand times.

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She probably had.

Women are often handed shame before they are handed answers.

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