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Florida School Teacher Andrea Phillips always loved her job, and she spent years collecting

hundreds of books to help struggling readers discover new possibilities.

But then her district informed her and her colleagues that their classroom libraries were

off limits until every book was approved, all because of an intentionally vague new law.

Here her story on the latest episode of Into the Mix, subscribe now.

It's unexplainable, I'm no, I'm Hassan Feld, and this week we've got an episode from

our reporter, Bird Pinkerton.

And Bird, you've been working on this for a really long time, right?

Yeah, so earlier this year I started reading up on this condition called endometriosis,

which is basically just that tissue that's normally inside of a person's uterus or

a version of that tissue starts growing in other parts of the body, so like the intestines

or on the ovaries.

And it can start causing some pretty serious problems sometimes.

The numbers here aren't perfect, but what we know is that it can affect up to one in ten

woman of childbearing age, and potentially actually more people who don't identify

as women.

For some people it's completely devastating, some people don't feel any pain at all.

And so I did this call out basically to ask our listeners to tell us about their experiences

with endometriosis, and we got just like this outpouring of responses, there were descriptions

of physical pain, there were descriptions of mental pain, including thoughts of suicide,

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