Once she was convinced that she was neither dying nor ill, and had been lectured by several of the local women about how a natural biological function couldn’t make anyone unclean, had Dr. Bleak given her that impression, they’d smack that patriarchal attitude out of his head if he had, Jack had begrudgingly, grumblingly accepted this as a new aspect of her reality and set her attention to improving it, as much as could be done.
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