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[Note: full captions will be added on 3 March] Alexandra (name changed) is sitting in her grandmother's apartment. Here she spent her childhood. Now in this apartment she advises clients. Alexandra is a psychologist. The photo was taken 2018-05-05 in the city of Minsk, Republic of Belarus. Alexandra is 35 years old (1983 year of birth). She is divorced. She has a child. Alexandra made two abortions. I asked Alexander to sit in a chair opposite the cabinet. As a child, Alexandra looked into the reflections of this wardrobe and made up fairy-tale heroes;.."The first time I became pregnant at the age of 23 from a man who was much older than me. I had been living alone in another country. He was my boss, who forced me to sexual relations. He did not use either condoms or other means of protecting himsef. For him, jazzing with his sperm into a woman was a thrill. I felt relieved when I had an abortion. I remember how he joked uglly and nasty that we could have a blue-eyed baby. The second story is related to my ex-husband. I was already a more mature woman. When I got pregnant, my husband and I already had a child, whom I had given birth before because of the fear to remain the infertile women. My third pregnancy I decided not to save. I understood that I no longer want a child from this man. At the time I was the breastfeeding mother and I could not have a medical abortion. It was necessary to wait for the deadline to make a vacuum. There was a terrible period: I was growing the unborn child inside with intention to kill it later." (Tatsiana Tkachova) NO SALES, THIS MATERIAL IS FOR SINGLE USE PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT OR FOR A TEMPORARY ONLINE PUBLICATION, AND MAY BE USED EXCLUSIVELY TO PUBLICIZE THE 2020 WORLD PRESS CONTEST AND EXHIBITION. IT MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ARTICLE OR ANY OTHER ITEM THAT CONTAINS NO DIRECT LINK TO WORLD PRESS PHOTO AND ITS ACTIVITIES. THE PICTURE MAY NOT BE CROPPED OR MANIPULATED IN ANY WAY. KEYSTONE PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED HANDOUT PHOTO. THE COPYRIGHT IS OWNED BY A THIRD PARTY.