"I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."

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"I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast feed."

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"For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that's reprehensible."

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