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I’m the Product of Rape and I’m Pro-Choice

This post was written by a member of the Crasstalk community who wished to remain anonymous. It originally ran on July 18th, but due to recent events, we thought it deserved another look. 

Originally posted August 22, 2012

To get to the point, I am a product of a rape. I didn’t discover this juicy little factoid until I was well into my thirties. My mother, bless her heart, had spent her entire life telling me a lie, and she had been telling me this lie for so long I think she actually began to believe it. She began to have migraines when she got older and the doctors gave her a variety of medicines for relief. One of her medications acted like sort of a truth serum, and the ugly truth spilled out in a phone conversation that ended up with me being pretty freaked out. Continue reading

QOTD: What’s Your Morning Routine?

Wake up, sleepyheads. I can hardly think of anything worse than two people operating under the same roof with different morning routines. “GOOD MORNING! LET’S TALK A LOT!” people do not go well with the people who are still wiping sleep out of their eyes until noon. Someone’s life is often at risk in such situations.

How do your mornings go? Are you the snooze until it’s too late, throw on some clothes and haul ass to work type, the wake up at 5:00 am, hit the gym, and strut into the office by 7:30 type, or the slowly to rise, get some coffee, shower and stroll into the office type?

 

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