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Weekly Contest #348
Veronica was young for a mother and had no pre-recorded history of mental illness.Of course, back then, you weren’t ever really mentally ill. You were just "crazy". Or "feeble". Or a "lunatic". Or, most unfairly, a woman. There wasn’t so much talk as there is today about psychiatrists and behavioral therapists and - God forbid - mental health days. So long as you kept from running down the street ass-naked or smothering your infant baby, it wasn’t very likely that anybody would notice your problems. If you were really, really stressed, you c...
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