I just read an essay called "Shunned" by Meredith Hall. She was shunned by her community when she got pregnant at 16. This was in the 60's. Her essay was a winner in the Creative Nonfiction contest.
This essay is startling and bothers me because there seems to be no resolution. I kept looking for the good in the outcome and couldn't find one. The writer still seems affected by it.
https://www.creativenonfiction.org/online-reading/shunned
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