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Note/Trigger Warning: This story includes mention of sexual violence and termination of pregnancy. Nothing is graphically described. Wisteria tucks an errant lock of red-brown hair back under the scarf tied over her head, then wipes the sweat from her brow. Brewing medicine for Miss Myrtle is hot, sticky work. But Miss Myrtle has been lying in bed for three days, weak as a newborn fawn and wracked with violent coughing fits from time to time, and cannot possibly be expected to make medicine for herself, not that Wisteria would ask such a t...
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