“More than 13 years ago, I got pregnant. At the time, I was finishing school and just beginning my career. My boyfriend ‘Ben’ and I had been dating seriously for a few years. We had talked about marriage and children but hadn’t decided on when that would be. Ben assumed the pregnancy was a birth control failure. I told other people that it was an “unplanned but welcome surprise.” I never told another person this, but my pregnancy wasn’t an accident at all. I stopped taking birth control pills because I wanted to have a child.”
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