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It’s cold and people are hungry. People don’t want children when they’re cold and hungry.

The first family planning clinic opens near you in 1932. A young woman, Elizabeth Bagshaw, decides that her kitchen will become an information counter for women who are exhausted. Young women with bags under their eyes line up, their children in a constellation around them.

Elizabeth explains how to use a condom. They blush, giggle bashfully. They still have to convince their husbands.

You are sitting on the balcony when, one morning, the police show up and take her away. She never comes back to your neighbourhood.

You will remember her wrists in handcuffs, her intelligent eyes, her round bottom, and her deep voice. In that order.