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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

I went to school because I was supposed to. I did pre-med because my mum thought it was a good idea.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

I was going to college to be a doctor.

By the time I was in high school, Roe v. Wade had passed, so that was also happening; girls were getting pregnant and getting abortions - and that happened in my school too.

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.