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For the next 20 minutes I was bombarded with a ton of accusations and insults. Then she had the audacity to ask me, ’Do you, young lady, have any kids yourself?’ To which I quickly replied that it was none of her business, but in response I was told that it meant I had none and therefore I didn’t understand what it was like to be a mother. Then she pointed out my supposedly infantile nature, since a grown woman wants to admire clouds instead of just moving from point A to point B. My manners also came under attack: ’You could have let the kid have it, is that so hard?’ She said this so loudly that I felt a flush of heat creep up my neck; the public shaming was intentional and suffocating.”
