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My mother was a druid and an herbalist, which meant she knew a great many ways to prevent a variety of maladies, and ways to cure others. In short, though my mother was a whore, she knew how to save herself the trouble of falling pregnant to one of her clients. She had herbs and roots and teas that could close the womb of a woman or cause a woman to purge her unborn child.

I knew this because, despite the shift in my mother’s clientele from female to male, she still saw some...