This Woman Won't Wheesht

This Woman Won't Wheesht

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This Woman Won't Wheesht
This Woman Won't Wheesht
Recalling the birth of my son and the power of women

Recalling the birth of my son and the power of women

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Recalling the birth of my son and the power of women
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It was close to midnight, on a hot, sticky Saturday night 48 years ago today (10 July 1976) that I gave birth. I was nineteen. I had only started menstruation three years previously. My body was still that of an ad…

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