Michelle
When Michelle got her first period, she was afraid she was dying. Terrified, she stuffed bits of cloth and cotton inside herself to try to stem the bleeding. Too frightened to tell her parents what was happening, she kept quiet. She spent her school day terrified blood would leak out, exposing her to ridicule from her classmates. “At first I was so scared, I didn’t know what it was, I thought I had hurt myself”.
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