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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Ah life path number 3 combo for the Midwest woman. Become a nurse and have children.

Personally I'm bias, I saw four (women) friends either drop out of college, or get pregnant early, or one was convinced to give up her career by her future husband, all to drop in the fallback of nursing and then each have like 3 kids. They all live within 20 miles of where they were born and none of them followed through with the dreams they had. So I see this and my heart sinks remembering that, and wondering about them