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From going into labor on the first day of a new job to miscalculating bubble guts, a new survey has unveiled the realest stories of womanhood.
That’s according to a poll of 2,000 women ages 25 to 44, which asked them to get candid about what, when, where, why and how about everything that goes on “down there.”
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