Chapter 1: The Exam

Henrietta had been telling her closest girlfriends that "something wasn't right" for more than a year.

"For more than a year Henrietta had been telling her closest girlfriends something didn’t feel right."

henrietta had been telling her closet girlfriends that something didn't feel right with her for more than a year .

Henrietta waited over a year before telling her closest girlfriends something didn’t feel right. “About a week after telling her cousins she thought something was wrong, at the age of twenty-nine, Henrietta turned up pregnant with Joe, her 5th child. Four and half months after baby Joseph was born, Henrietta went to the bathroom and found blood spotting her underwear when it wasn't her time of the month” (Skloot, 14-15).