“...you won’t be coming home with the baby, that baby will be adopted...”
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19.04.2025 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1@inherowntime.bsky.social
In her own time takes original oral histories, and weaves them together to create one story. The character is fictional, but the entire story is composed solely from the words of the women I interview.
“...you won’t be coming home with the baby, that baby will be adopted...”
30.5.2025
19.04.2025 23:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 130.5.2025
19.04.2025 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“... I think it’s that saying like it takes a village And I don’t think there’s acknowledgement that people don’t have villages, I didn’t feel like I had a village at times...”
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19.04.2025 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“... people were like, you know ‘oh sure you can try again, you know, if you and your partner get married, and all this kind of thing. But the thing was I wanted that baby ...”
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19.04.2025 23:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“... During my pregnancy I wasn't allowed out over the door in case anybody seen me. I had to stay in the flat. It was like a prison sentence. Nobody was allowed to contact me. It was like being in jail every day. I just had to sit in that flat. This went on till I went into labour ...”
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19.04.2025 23:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“... I was told to leave the school. And they wouldn’t even allow me to finish my A Levels, so I left with five GCSE’s. There was nobody in my school or there was never any talk of ever coming back to school to study once you were pregnant. That was you. It was a grammar school, but it was a grammar school for young ladies. And I was no longer a young lady apparently ...”
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