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Sep 21

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 3)

It wasn’t only girls my own age. Grown women came too, including two of my teachers.

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Jul 27

Proof of Life

A Thursday, like all my Thursdays, and the diagnosis that didn’t yet exist.

Proof of Life

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Sep 19

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 2)

I kept a blood pressure cuff in my school locker and asked every girl the same six questions before I gave her anything.

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Jun 15

The Fence

Dissociation is not weakness, not madness, not a character flaw. It’s a solution.

The Fence

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Sep 17

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 1)

My father sold birth control pills for a living, and by age 15 I knew more about them than the doctors writing the prescriptions.

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 1)

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Sep 23

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 4)

What a boy learns doing this doesn’t go away, and it costs more than he knows at the time.

The 15-Year-Old OB/GYN (Part 4)

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Jul 22

The Weight I Was Handed

On parentification and the childhood that was over before it began.

The Weight I Was Handed

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Jun 9

A Watercolor in the Rain

I sometimes wonder what these women would think of the man I’ve become and how they view their roles in my development.

A Watercolor in the Rain

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Jun 4

The Boys Are Not All Right

A worldwide survey shows something we should have foreseen — and something we still have time to change.

The Boys Are Not All Right

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Apr 28

The Epstein Files Are About More Than Epstein

Grooming is grooming, whether it happened in a Palm Beach estate or in a small house a few blocks from where a young child lived with…

The Epstein Files Are About More Than Epstein

Keith Bumgarner

Keith Bumgarner

Power is a trust—and I write about what happens when it’s betrayed, whether by a parent, a teacher, a system, or a president.

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