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“The OB-GYN asked me the length of my cycle. I said twenty-three days. She wrote it down. My husband said, no honey, I think it’s more like twenty-eight, and she erased what I had said and wrote twenty-eight. I have been tracking my cycle for eleven years in an app. It is twenty-three days. I did not correct her. I have not been back.”