It was with ragged desperation that Julie lifted the hormone medication to her lips. Every last nerve of her body quivering, she suddenly had to sit down on the edge of the bathtub, feeling faint. She had to do it, every day, to make sure she would not get pregnant. She looked at the symbol on the medicine package and started to cry. She wanted a baby, a child to raise, just as her sister before her. Julie loved her nieces and nephews and spent loving times with them. Her family didn’t know Julie’s secret, that her husband was a sociopath. He was a good looking man exuding charm when needed and her family loved him. Once home alone with him, Julie saw his actual personality. There was no way she was going to bring a child into this unpredictable home.
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https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2024/06/23/three-things-challenge-m734/Your three words today are: HORMONE MEDICATION NERVE
FOWC with Fandango — Desperation
RDP Sunday: ragged
The Bag Lady 
Thanks for the inclusion. Such a sad story.
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Just one of those days I guess
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so sad, this is all too true for so many women! X
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Good writing but such a sad dilemma.
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Not uncommon
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It is?
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Today, women’s rights and even access to birth control is in the balance. If Trump and his weird followers get their way our entire “freedom” culture will go by the wayside.
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That person really hates women. He seems to feel they are only good for sex.
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I think he uses women like he uses everything and everyone else.
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