Motherhood - The Early Days When I Knew Everything

I got pregnant in 1989, when I was 32

I got pregnant in 1989, when I was 32, the same age as my mother when she had me. I was due in early June, which inspired a flood of Gemini well-wishes from the On Our Backs readers, who were as surprised and curious as everyone else.

© 1990, Honey Lee Cottrell, Stinson Beach

“Did you inseminate or did you party?” asked Marika at our magazine Xmas Party.

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