B was at her partner’s house one day when she had a gut instinct, a churning feeling inside her body that led her to take a pregnancy test.
“I kind of went robotic and shut everything out, any emotions or anything,” she said. “I felt like my whole life was going to go down the drain because that’s how society portrays it.”
B, who we are referring to by her first initial because she’s not ready for her family to know her story, was 17 years old when she found out she was pregnant. It was the end of 2020, during her final year of high school.
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