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The very day I came across a tampon

Photo Credit: Pexels I was 22, standing beside the shelves of a famous supermarket in Kenya, seeming like I am looking for a certain brand of lotion- but in real sense, I was bewilderingly gazing at a pack of tampons like it was a ticking-time bomb. I had only chanced these items in movies- typically white womenfolk in Chapati blankets- baggy hoodies nonchalantly throwing them into shopping trolleys. But then again there I was, in an African State where sanitary towels are the standard, puzzling if I was audacious enough to try out something unalike.  I stretched my arm and went for the smallest package that was placed on the topmost shelf containing facial glow items, or can I refer to them as ‘Glow-up kits?’  I almost felt comparable to a shoplifter, even although I paid fully at the counter, with the cash handler side eyeing me, then eyeballing the tampons, and then giving me a piercing look. I felt under the microscope, punitively judged. Perhaps I made it-up in my mind, m...

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