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    PINK MOON

    Mar 05, 2020 4 minutes
    TEXT - ELLE HUNT
    ILLUSTRATION
    - ROBERT WALLACE

    They say a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I just still don’t know why I chose to take mine in the ladies’ toilets at work.

    I was, for the first time, attempting to install inside myself a Mooncup: a bendy silicone vessel that is inserted into the vagina to collect menstrual blood. Feeling mounting guilt over my tampons’ monthly contribution to plastic waste, I’d been moved to give it a go by the happy coincidence of a friend’s rave review and an online deal for a two-pack.

    Though the Mooncup quickly becomes easy to

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