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The older women in my church would tell the younger girls, that
if you sit in a chair behind a pregnant woman, that you would also
become pregnant. We would spend the entire day avoiding any seats
that were occupied by anyone pregnant.

Submitter comment: That was their way of scaring us into not being promiscuous.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Subject headings: Favorites
BELIEF -- Birth

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