![]() ![]() I got the cup, peed into it, dipped the stick and put it on the side to wait and see what happened. Better luck with the next one, eh? I thought. I poured a glass of water and began drinking enough of it to bring in a hosepipe ban. What are the chances that I – me! – would get this messed up test? Having already thrown my certainly-not-positive urine down the sink before I could immerse another test stick, there was no way that I could wee again. I messed around on my phone, sent a few texts, and looked back over to the stick. That’s why, when I urinated into a cup and sat there with my pants around my ankles waiting for the all-important negative result, I felt no fear. An in-and-out, what are we going to have for dinner after this? job. I, of all people, would find having an abortion easy. 20+ years of making my life solely about somebody else sounded like my own personal hell, and any suggestion that I would eventually change my mind was met with actual offence. ![]() And I knew one thing with unwavering certainty: that I was never, ever going to have a baby. My life plan was written by me, directed by me, and featured – and I cannot stress this enough – exclusively me. A former Religion, Philosophy and Ethics student at KCL, she aims to represent working-class lives without the middle-class gaze that they are often subjected to.įrom a young age, I’ve always known what I wanted. Emily O’Sullivan is the deputy editor of a Birmingham-based magazine & a writer with an interest in working-class issues.
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