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Welcome to Woman Hood!


Not so bad for your first time right? Wrong.

Not so  bad when you overlook the bleeding.

Not so bad when you overlook the stretching.

Not so bad when you overlook the inside guilt, cultivating your conscience because growing up in a religious household you were raised to wait until marriage. 

And now that you did not wait my love, what is there left to do? Because now you're a grown woman, you're not a kid anymore.

Oh, don't tell me you skipped a period?

Are you on birth control? No?

Did you at least use protection? No again? 

There's a saying they say, "15 minutes of pleasure can cause a lifetime of pain". And to others it may not be a pain because they waited until they we're ready but, you my dear are still just a baby. 

There's not much left for me to say, but one thing...

Welcome to Woman Hood!

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