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WOMEN LIKE ME

My toes curled as another wave of pain hit me.

I was 14 years old, and sat in the waiting room at the doctor’s.

I had been back and forth for the past couple of months, trying to get to the bottom of what was causing me to be in so much agony.

It had all started when I got my period at 12.

They seemed pretty normal at first. I was bleeding quite heavily and getting cramps, but nothing out of the ordinary.

But as time went by, things got worse. The cramps became unbearable and soon, my awful periods left me bedbound.

I missed so much school and never got to go out with friends during my time of the month.

There were

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