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Former weightlifter copes with effects of hormone use
Zou Chunlan showed photos of her weightlifting career.
Zou Chunlan is former weightlifting champion from northeast China’s Jilin Province. First joining the Jilin provincial sports team in 1987, she won three successive national weightlifting championships and nine gold medals from 1987 to 1993, the year she retired. She also broke national and world records. However, the years following Zou’s retirement have been anything but celebratory.
Zou suffered greatly from the effects of daily usage of the male hormone androgen during her career as a weightlifter. Zou said her coaches gave androgen pills to her and her teammates every day, telling them that they were nutritional medicine and good for health. After Zou’s voice started to become coarse and the other players started to grow facial hair, the coaches revealed the pills were androgen, but said that taking the drug would have no harmful effects to the lifters’ bodies. This would again prove to be false.
Eight years after her retirement, Zou found that she could not easily reverse the effects of long-term androgen use. A medical check in 2001 showed that her male hormone levels surpassed most men. In 2002, she got married but could not understand why she could not become pregnant, despite a normal sex life. At first, she doubted that the hormone use had caused her infertility, until doctors told her otherwise. The pills had destroyed Zou’s dreams of becoming a mother.
“I doubted that pills I took when I was an athlete were the real cause,” Zou said. She had since indicated that she and her husband would be open to adopting a child.
In 2007, Zou had plastic surgery at hospital in Changchun, which included eyebrow beautification and hair removal from her legs and face, so that she could once again look more feminine. Reportedly, the costs of the surgery were extremely high, possibly 100,000 yuan (US$13,690). However, the hospital kindly exempted her from any fees.
After retirement, a long hard road for former champion
Despite her great success as an athlete, Zou fell into financial difficulty after her retirement. After a few years doing menial jobs in the women’s weightlifting team kitchen, she was asked to leave. With the education equivalent of a third-grade student, Zou had no choice but to find manual labor jobs such as carrying sacks at a construction site and selling lamb kebabs on the street. Finally, she got a job working as a masseuse at a bathhouse, where she barely made ends meet earning 500 yuan (US$77) a month.
Years later, in 2006, reports of Zou’s hardship began surfacing in the media, drawing criticism of China’s treatment of former athletes. The “Zou Chunlan phenomenon” has since become a catch-phrase for athletes who aren’t guaranteed a pension after their retirement.
In response to the media pressure, in April 2006 the Jilin Sports Bureau and the All-China Women’s Federation donated 200,000 yuan in equipment to help Zou start a laundry business to earn a living.
Originally, the business gained steam as people flocked to catch a glimpse of the former world champion. However, the novelty soon wore off. Zou said that the high costs of operating the laundry only allow her to earn 2000 to 3000 yuan per month in profits.
“Nobody cares whether or not you are a renowned person. People are still not willing to work for a lower wage,” she said.
In order to help other retired women athletes start their own businesses, Zou has given lectures throughout China.
Zou Chunlan, who won more than 20 championships, became a bath worker after retiring. Her husband was a monk and is still unable to give birth.
Text / Maisui Xiaoyu inscription: When it comes to weightlifting, who do you think of? Perhaps it is the Olympic champions Zhan Xugang, Shi Zhiyong, Zhang Guozheng, Liu Chunhong, a
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Who would you think of when lifting weights?
may be the Olympic champions Zhan Xugang, Shi Zhiyong, Zhang Guozheng, Liu Chunhong, and Long Qingquan. But what I think of is: was injured and died at the age of 33; injured his internal organs after winning the championship, and Tang Gonghong with blood in his ears and nose; and Zou, who became a scrubber and was barren in this life Chunlan.
They worked hard for the Chinese weightlifting career, and even spared their lives in exchange for the gold medal. But after retiring, life is embarrassing and difficult, which makes people embarrassed!
Today, let’s talk about Zou Chunlan, who became a scrubber after retirement, was sentenced to death by the doctor and could not give birth.
Zou Chunlan was born in 1971 in a poor family in Shancheng Town, Meihekou City, Jilin Province.
In order to have a stable and decent job in the future, with this purpose, her parents sent her to the juvenile sports school to practice sports .
Maybe, you would say that her motivation to practice sports is not pure. In fact, in the era of very poor material, this was a shortcut for the children of poor families to escape their fate.
In 1984, Chinese women’s weightlifting was not long established, and there was an urgent need to expand talents. Therefore, the National Sports Commission called on local provincial teams and sports schools to vigorously train weightlifting talents.
One day, a teacher in the physical education group found Zou Chunlan and said: “Would you not practice weightlifting?”
Zou Chunlan asked doubtfully: “What is weightlifting?”
Teacher: ” Is the train 轱辘, there is a bar in the middle.”
This explanation of the teacher is easy to understand, it is amazing!
Out of curiosity, Zou Chunlan followed the teacher to the weight training gym. After that, she said, “Let me try.” Unexpectedly, 13-year-old Zou Chunlan lifted 90 kilograms at once, seemingly effortless.
So, the teacher said: “You are a good weightlifting seedling, you should be able to get results, or you can change weightlifting.”
Zou Chunhong became a professional weightlifter.
It didn’t take long to practice weightlifting. In 1984, she won the championship in the National Weightlifting Championship. Zou Chunlan cherishes the first gold medal in her life. In her own words: “This is the purest piece of gold!”
Because of her outstanding achievements, In June 1987, he joined the Jilin Provincial Sports Team and became an athlete “within the system”.
At that time, the sports team not only took care of food and housing, but also paid wages. Therefore, that time was the happiest moment in her life.
In the 6 years in the sports team, I didn’t learn any cultural courses. Exercise at 5:30 every day, eat breakfast at 7:00, and then start training. If you do not train in the morning, sleep in the dormitory. Have lunch at 11:30, come back and rest for a while.
Start training at 2:30 in the afternoon and practice until 6:00. After dinner, everyone played cards and chattering together, turning off the lights at 9:30 to go to bed, and living a carefree life.
Of course, when Zou Chunlan was training, she was still very serious and hardworking. In almost every game, I never came home empty-handed.
In the first year of joining the sports team, she won in the National Weightlifting ChampionshipYou have to snatch second place and clean and clean first place.
In 1988, in the National Weightlifting Championship, Zou Chunlan won another 44 kg class snatch, clean and jerk, and 3 gold medals. The clean and jerk and total score broke the world record.
In 1990, the National Weightlifting Championship broke the 48kg national record.
In 1993, at the Seventh National Games, Zou Chunlan returned empty-handed for the first time due to injuries. In the same year, she announced her retirement.
In just 10 years of weightlifting career, Zou Chunlan won a total of more than 20 gold medals. If it weren’t for injuries, winning gold and silver in the Olympics should be a sure thing.
However, everything is destroyed by injury!
When the parents sent Zou Chunlan to practice sports, they hoped that their daughter could be assigned a stable job after retirement. However, because of the low level of education, the job has not been settled.
So, after retiring, Zou Chunlan first picked up the children for the coach. This is similar to the job of a “nanny”, she has been doing for about a year.
Later, he was arranged to work in the canteen of the sports team. Zou Chunlan thought to himself, just do the chores, as long as the work is arranged in the future.
In this way, a “big material” who won more than 20 championships became a canteen handyman, and he worked for three years.
Zou Chunlan often recalls the sadness and hardships of this journey in the middle of the night. The weightlifting career of the past ten years has not only left myself injured and sick, but also abandoned my studies. Elementary school culture is equivalent to illiterate.
However, she still has illusions, hoping that the leader can arrange a stable and decent job for herself.
But in the fourth year, the leader said to her: “Zou Chunlan, you can’t arrange your work.”
Hearing this, Zou Chunlan felt like five thunders, and the whole person was dumbfounded.
All the grievances, all the injustices, a rush of brains flooded my heart, tears could not help but fall.
failed. In 2000, Zou Chunlan took 75,000 yuan from the sports team as injury compensation and left the sports team lonely.
At this moment, Zou Chunlan feels like an abandoned person.
“Ten years of weightlifting, I am lost, I don’t think about it, I am unforgettable”;
“More than twenty gold medals, heavy, who is in charge”
After that, She can only support herself, but where should she go?
Because of the low academic qualifications, Zou Chunlan was refused job hunting everywhere.
Finally, in desperation, she can only rely on her own brute force to support herself by pulling sand and grilling skewers on the construction site. However, because of the lack of social experience, I lost everything.
Moreover, the 75,000 yuan given by the sports team is not enough for years and months of medical treatment and injection. Zou Chunlan’s life was very embarrassing. In the dead of night, every time he recalled choosing to practice sports, he was full of regrets.
Later, I had no choice but to go to the bathhouse to take a shower.
Rub a piece of 3 yuan, and the boss will give a dollar and five. At most, Zou Chunlan can take 40 baths a day, and he’s too tired to hit the aisles.ladle.
Zou Chunlan said: “I used to be so brilliant, but now I give people a bath every day, and I am so tired.”
Therefore, she feels that the world is too unfair Up.
This is the day when I took a bath in a public bath. Zou Chunlan, who won more than 20 gold medals, worked for 3 years, only earning more than 500 yuan a month, not even the money to buy medicine.
Once, Zou Chunlan was recognized by a customer while taking a bath. The other party said: “I seem to have seen you on TV. You are a weightlifting champion. Your surname is Zou.”
Zou Chunlan nodded embarrassedly. Later, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred, everyone knows the past. The weightlifting champion became a scrubber, and the media rushed to report it.
In 2006, after the matter was fermented, the All-China Women’s Federation and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau decided to support Zou Chunlan’s business after learning about her situation. Zou Chunlan decided to open a dry cleaner, and the All-China Women’s Federation Half the Sky Laundry Project Office funded Zou Chunlan’s complete set of laundry equipment. And send someone to help her choose a location and technical training.
After intensive preparations, on September 4, 2006, Zou Chunlan’s Yihao Dry Cleaning Shop opened.
At the beginning, because of inexperience and fierce competition, the dry cleaners did not operate smoothly.
But every time Zou Chunlan washes the clothes for a customer, she has to over and over check it several times. If there is any unclean place, she will wash it again. Slowly by virtue of low prices and excellent service quality, won the market.
In the summer of 2007, there was a golf course that specially pulled a large car seat cover, shirt, bed sheet, and mouthpiece for her to clean. This moved Zou Chunlan very much, so she helped others clean it at the lowest price. .
But in 2015, dry cleaners were still unable to operate.
But with her husband’s company and encouragement, she is no longer alone, and she has the courage to overcome suffering. Zou Chunlan will not admit defeat in life like the strong on the field.
Back then, Zou Chunlan opened a bunch shop near her godmother’s house and met Lao Zhou’s sister.
Old Zhou’s sister said, “I’ll introduce you to someone, and I’ll be a brother.”
Zou Chunlan asked: “What does he do?”
妹：” Brother Cheng is a monk!”
The reason why Lao Zhou became a monk is all because of Jet Li’s movie “Shaolin Temple”.
At that time, Lao Zhou was very envious after seeing the life of a monk in Shaolin Temple. is good to be a monk, without fighting against the world, and he can learn some martial arts . Therefore, he decided to become a monk.
During the time when he was a monk, I read the scriptures every day, and I remembered in my soul “only good deeds, not bad deeds.”
Suddenly, one day, my sister followed He said, “Brother, I’ll introduce you a girlfriend, a weightlifting champion.”
listened to the old Monday, unreliable, can the weightlifting champion look to us, let alone I am a monk, and I don’t want to meet each other. Finally, it was his uncle and aunt, and his sister forced him to come back and meet.
Just like that, Honest Bajiao’s Lao Zhou “down the mountain”.
My sister took him to Zou Chunlan’s Chuan’er shop, because both of them are first love, Not called first love, it should be called the first date with the opposite sex. So, I don’t know what to say, anyway, it’s just an awkward chat.
Before leaving, Zou Chunlan also bought a bag of fruit for Lao Zhou. Lao Zhou originally thought that “the woman under the mountain is a tiger”, but he didn’t think that this woman is really good, knowing that it hurts people.
After Lao Zhou went up the mountain, Zou Chunlan went to heart. She felt that this man was very honest, practical and suitable for living. Although he is a monk, he can still be vulgar.
So, Zou Chunlan said to Lao Zhou’s sister, “I am willing to associate.”
Lao Zhou’s sister and aunt waited to call him in turn, Zou Chunlan also often “harassed” him.
Later, Lao Zhou was really not recruited. I thought, if you are vulgar, then you will be vulgar!
Later, the honest couple got married. Although their lives were poor, the two cared for and supported each other, which can be regarded as having fun.
However, Zou Chunlan has always had a woman’s dream in her heart.
Because, in order to increase their strength, the coach asked them to take the “nutritional medicine” of tonic, which is a derivative of male hormones, which can accelerate the rapid growth of muscles and enhance the strength and physical strength of the body.
And these drugs caused Zou Chunlan’s male hormones to be higher than that of ordinary men, and he also grew many hairs on his body, and his voice became rough. Even after retiring for many years, before going out, Zou Chunlan must pull out his beard one by one in the mirror. Every time she pulls one, her heart is bleeding!
Zou Chunlan wrote in Weibo: ” Since becoming an athlete, I have never worn a skirt , all related to the beauty of women I have to stand aside, Now if I don’t have a beard or leg hair, like a normal woman, wearing a beautiful skirt, I will be content.”
Many times, I was taken by a child Zou Chunlan was particularly embarrassed and sad when she was called “Uncle”.
She said that since I was an athlete, I have never worn a skirt. My beard always pops up in two days. I have never felt proud and confident as a woman.
At the end of 2006, with the help of enthusiasts, Zou Chunlan performed a comprehensive physical examination in a hospital in Beijing. The examination result said that her throat was enlarged, her beard, armpit hair and body hair were obvious, and her voice was rough and hoarse, so she did not dare to look in the mirror. Every time I take a photo, I see a beard coming out of my mouth, very dark and thick.
For thirty years, Zou Chunlan has always dreamed of being a woman. Later, a plastic surgery hospital in Chongqing actively contacted her and designed a whole set of plastic surgery plans for Zou Chunlan.
After the complete operation, the husband Lao Zhou came to pick her up, and when he saw Zou Chunlan, he said: “What a new wife!”
However, the appearance can be changed, and the heart disease is hard to get rid of.
After getting married, Zou Chunlan always wanted to give birth to Lao Zhou, and she also wanted to be a mother. This kind of life can be considered complete.
However, because of the long-term use of “strength tonic drugs” during training, her physical disorder was caused. There are too many male hormones and too few female hormones. After going to the hospital for examination, the doctor directly sentenced the “death penalty”-unable to give birth!
Zou Chunlan’s hopes of being a mother are dashed, so she and her husband plan to adopt a child. I often return to the orphanage to visit the children. A woman’s heart as a mother will never die!
I hope that the honest couple Zou Chunlan and Lao Zhou can be safe and happy in this life!
Finally, put a wedding photo taken by Zou Chunlan after plastic surgery.
Zou Chunlan, who has won more than 20 championships, became a bather after retiring, her husband was a monk, and her sports career that has not yet borne the attention of the people has come to a hast
author：Wen Shi Wangwang 2021-11-08 15:10:45
Intelligence is an innate gift to everyone. If you happen to be talented, it doesn’t matter, at least you can simply live the life of an ordinary person.
If you happen to be talented, then you need more than anything else (emotional intelligence, knowledge, social status, etc.) to make sure your talent doesn’t become a tool for other people to make money and to make sure you can control your life accurately.
Athletes who can represent their countries in international competitions belong to a category of people who are extremely talented in sports. They are highly skilled and always seem to be pushing the limits of the human body. But once the body grows old, their treatment will be in jeopardy.
Zou Chunlan, the name is a very unfamiliar name for teenagers after the millennium. Yes, the Olympic champion who won more than twenty medals has been forgotten by people, by the country, and by the times. In the sports career is unlimited, but after the end of the so depressed? Is this an individual inaction, or is it the decline of the system?
Zou Chunlan is a weightlifter. She began her career as an athlete at the age of fourteen, and at the age of sixteen, she entered the first sports team in Jilin Province. She is talented in the sport of weightlifting, so she was discovered by the “scouts” in the sports industry very early.
Good seedlings, everyone will rush to the top, so Zou Chunlan will not be left out. When Zou Chunlan first entered the work team, she was caught by the coach there, and she began to become the object of the coach’s key training. Zou Chunlan not only has the talent of weightlifting, but also has excellent physical fitness and physical fitness.
After only a few months of devil training, she had just entered the work team and won the first place in the national weightlifting competition in the same year, and the second place in the grasplift. At that time, she had just turned sixteen, which was an achievement that ordinary people could not hope for.
Since then, Zou Chunlan has gradually grown into a professional weightlifter, often representing the work team in various large and small weightlifting events. Zou Chunlan is a well-deserved maxima in the weightlifting career, and in the six consecutive years of participating in the event, she has won more than 20 gold medals.
In fact, in China, women’s weightlifting began to emerge in the early 1980s. This is already very far behind other countries, but the first to break the world record at the Beijing Olympics was the Chinese women’s weightlifting team.
Therefore, the Chinese women’s weightlifting team has since become a well-deserved king in the field of weight sports in China and even in the world. Where is Zou Chunlan at this time?
1990 was the most glorious year of Zou Chunlan’s sports career and the most tragic final year. In this year’s national weightlifting championship, Zou Chunlan broke the national record of 48 kilograms in one fell swoop, and was cheered and applauded by the whole country.
However, the good times did not last long, Zou Chunlan was accidentally injured in the game and could not continue to the next round of the game. At such a critical moment, not to mention sending charcoal in the snow, the team actually took advantage of this to fall into the well and directly abandoned Zou Chunlan. Zou Chunlan received a retirement pension of 78,000 yuan, and so many years of athlete career came to an hasty end.
78,000 retirement payments, at first glance, is indeed a lot. But for a person who has no culture and no basic ability to live and work, the money will always be spent. In the six years in the team, Zou Chunlan listened to the coach’s words and has been immersed in training, and the theme of life day after day is training.
I have never received cultural education, and during the rest period after training, I only rely on playing cards and nagging with the team members to spend time, and when I am finished, I have to hurry up and devote myself to the next stage of training. Zou Chunlan recalled why she had embarked on the path of a weightlifter, and she bluntly said that she was completely instigated by the coach.
The coach used something like “responding to the call of the state” and “you are very talented” to fool her into the team. For Zou Chunlan, she did give full play to her talent in the weightlifting business. However, because of weightlifting, she lost the opportunity to receive an education, which directly contributed to her tragic experience later.
Due to the lack of basic cultural knowledge and the lack of basic employment skills, the only job Zou Chunlan can find is to work as a bather in the bathhouse. She gets paid 3 yuan for taking a bath at a time, and she can take up to 40 baths a day. However, this often causes Zou Chunlan to be so tired that she can’t walk home after finishing her work.
Originally, she had accumulated too much pain in her sports career, and now that she was working like this, Zou Chunlan’s body was completely damaged. Moreover, even if she lived so hard, Zou Chunlan’s monthly salary was not even five hundred yuan. However, in order to live, she still insisted on staying up for 3 years.
Later, because of an opportunity to scrub people’s baths, the customer recognized Zou Chunlan as a weightlifting champion. The news gradually reached the attention of the local women’s federation and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau, and they decided to provide funds and entrepreneurial support to Zou Chunlan.
She opened a dry cleaning shop with the help of everyone, but lacking business experience and brains, she could only barely rely on low-cost and high-quality services to attract customers. Even so, there was no way to keep the dry cleaners running, and the shop was quickly closed. Zou Chunlan’s life was once again in a slump.
Desperate, Zou Chunlan went to sell skewers, and in this job, she met a matchmaker who introduced herself to the object. But the matchmaker gave her a monk. How can this be done?
This monk’s name was Zhou Shaocheng, and because he had watched “Shaolin Temple” and was very eager to live a peaceful life like a monk, he decided to become a monk. However, his family was not very supportive, and repeatedly advised him to go down the mountain and get married. This time, Zhou Shaocheng’s blind date was Zou Chunlan.
The reluctant Zhou Shaocheng, under the soft and hard bubble of his family, finally agreed to meet with Zou Chunlan. Unexpectedly, this meeting, the two people are very fond of each other. So Zhou Shaocheng returned the custom and married Zou Chunlan in 2002.
Since they have been married for more than eighteen years, the couple has always longed to have a lovely child, but they have not been able to fulfill their wishes. The reason is in Zou Chunlan’s weightlifting career. During the training process, the coach will give Zou Chunlan a hormone drug such as “big pill”, desperate to let her play better in the game.
This drug made the hormone levels in Zou Chunlan’s body completely out of balance, the estrogen decreased, and the male hormone rose indefinitely. Although she has stopped taking drugs for many years, Zou Chunlan’s body has not fully returned to normal, and she still has lush body hair, thick pores and often needs to shave like a man.
It is for this reason that the couple has been unable to have their own children. Fortunately, Zhou Shaocheng did not complain about anything, and selflessly gave Zou Chunlan a loving companionship.
Zou Chunlan’s misfortune is not an isolated case in the sports world, but a universal phenomenon. In the future, the sports world should introduce more sound athlete protection regulations to ensure the education of athletes after training and to ensure that athletes can return to a normal life after retirement.
Text/Wen Shi Wangwang
China’s Disposable Athletes
China Photos / Getty Chinese athletes practice at the Yinzhou District Sports Center.
When Zou Chunlan left school to become a professional athlete, her recruiting coach assured the 13-year-old that the nation’s huge sports bureaucracy would look after her for the rest of her life. All she had to worry about was winning. For a decade, Zou followed his advice, winning the 48-kg national weightlifting title in 1990 when she was 19 years old and pocketing four other national championships. But when she retired in 1993, Zou discovered that the coach’s side of the bargain wasn’t going to be met. After three years of menial jobs in the women’s weightlifting team’s kitchen, she was asked to leave.
With her little education and total ignorance of the real world, Zou had little choice but to turn to physical labor. After stints carrying sacks on a construction site and selling lamb kebabs in the street, she ended up as a masseuse in a public bathhouse earning $60 a month. Her fate isn’t unusual. A weightlifting coach explained to the Beijing News that Zou wasn’t the only retired weightlifter struggling with the real world. “Zou’s national medals are worthless. There are world champions who end up jobless after retirement.”
The system that is so good at churning out Olympic medalists seems to be even better at producing poverty-stricken retired athletes. Last year, China’s national news agency Xinhua reported that almost half of 6,000 professional athletes retiring from competition each year end up jobless or without further schooling plans. Among them, the winner of the 1999 Beijing International Marathon Ai Dongmei, 26, who announced last year that she had no choice but to sell off her medals so that she could feed her family. Former Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of pneumonia at age 33 after he couldn’t afford to pay his medical bills. Liu Fei, a seven-time national champion and world champion in acrobatic gymnastics, struggles to live on the $20 she earned monthly from tutoring gymnastics.
According to the China Sports Daily, nearly 80% of China’s 300,000 retired athletes are struggling with joblessness, injury or poverty. Many athletes suffer from sports injuries and health problems caused by their training. Zou came out of the system with her own appalling legacy. She says the pills she was required to take made her grow a beard and develop a prominent Adam’s apple and a deep voice. “My coach told me it was a nutrition booster. I trusted him,” Zou says. The steroids also made her infertile. Now, she must shave every couple of days.
The root of Zou’s troubles, like so many things in China today, can be traced back to the country’s wholesale adoption of capitalism. Market forces were unleashed on what was once a sports system that cared for its athletes from cradle to grave, leaving Zou and tens of thousands of others out in the cold when they had passed their athletic peak and could no longer win attention and profits for their sports associations. In 2003, the changes were reinforced by a new law that shifted most responsibility for employment after retirement to the athletes themselves. “This group of athletes is the legacy of China’s economic development,” Liu Mingyu, deputy director of Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau told the Beijing News. “I feel for them, but there is nothing we can do to help all of them.” The 2003 law stipulates that “a lump sum compensation is to be given to those athletes who choose to find jobs on their own.” But that amount is usually not big enough to help an athlete with injuries and without an education.
Athletes now in training, however, may benefit from a new regulation currently being considered in the country’s sports bureau. It would bar recruitment of professional athletes until after they graduate high school. Some joint programs between sports teams and university departments have also been under discussion so that athletes are able to attend classes in university during training.
Since her plight became public, things have taken a turn for the better for Zou. With the help of the All China Women’s Federation, she opened a laundry shop six months ago in her hometown, Changchun, capital of Jilin Province. She no longer has to work as a masseuse at a bath house. But she is still struggling. Unable to read and unfamiliar with computers, she says she can hardly manage to add up her accounts. “I gave my youth to sport,” she told TIME over the phone, in a voice thick with emotion, “but in return, I was thrown out like garbage with no knowledge, no skill and a barren womb.”
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