'You'll be pregnant within a year if you get off the pill, sweetheart. Every girl does it. You'll be just fine.' I walked out of that doctor's office knowing that this could not be how I would live for the next 20 years of my life. I would rather be pregnant than feel like this, I thought to myself. As a newly married 22-year-old, I had only been on the pill for a year. The pill that had once represented maturity and womanhood to me now gave me a sense of dread. For years, I had secretly envied the girls whose phone timers went off once a day to remind them to take their little pill.

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