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Alana Massey
Alana Massey is a writer based in Brooklyn, New York, and the author of the forthcoming book
All the Lives I Want.
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Women Don't
Need
to Have Periods
Using birth control to eliminate menstruation isn’t unsafe, even if some worry it’s “unnatural.”
Alana Massey
Sep 9, 2015
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