He has the ability to say to me he needs time to decide which way his life will go—he can still say he might want children at an age where for a woman this would be impossible. The fact he can say this says everything about the power he holds versus the power my fertility has over me, the upper hand men have over women, because although women experience the infinite, our value is not seen as infinite, our value is tied to our small window of production and it is a daily effort to fight the fear we have no value outside the parameters of marriage and children, if it is possible to do this at
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