It was 2007 and at 17, I’d already been sexually active for two years and with multiple partners. I had rarely used a condom.

I had rarely used a condom. I fiddled with the purity ring I wore on a chain around my neck while I recounted each person I’d slept with. I tried to think of it as a math problem, 3 + 7 ...

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