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no, it was very painful, quite frankly, because i m a private person, and that is so private, and i think that s the point. it s a personal decision. it s a private decision. i haven t talked about it because, like my mother said, barbara, that s your business. you know, nobody needs to know unless you want to. the stigma around it, i mentioned earlier i went to catholic school. i was the first black cheerleader. i was on the honor roll. i played the piano, won two music scholarships. the stigma of people knowing that about me, it was just so over overwhelmingly painful, and so it wasn t cathartic. i wrote a book and wrote about this in chapter 6 because that was the most difficult chapter to write, but i ve never really talked about it. but i hope that those who really do believe they can control our bodies heard us and said, look, we re not trying to tell you what to do. we just ask you not to tell us that you re going to make your decisions, our decisions for us. and so it was har

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