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Pregnancy Then and Now

Pregnancy Then and Now

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As I stood in line at the Dollar Store I spied this the other day. How times have changed! When we were married almost fifty-eight years ago the scenario went like this:  You got married.  One day you missed a cycle.  Soon after you felt sick.  You went to the doctor.  They took a urine sample and sent it to a lab.  The lab injected a rabbit with your urine.  About two weeks later, if the rabbit died, the doctor…

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A Day with My Granddaughter

A Day with My Granddaughter

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Recently I spent the day with one of my granddaughters. She’ll be a senior in high school next year. We spoke of many things, but one stands out in my memory. She told me of accompanying a friend to a Planned Parenthood facility. Her friend’s mother instructed her to go there to get a pregnancy test. I’ll let you hear the conversation we had. “Mandy’s * mother was out of town so Mandy asked me to go with her.” “Why…

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