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[Note: full captions will be added on 3 March] Diana (name changed), 91 years old, single, no children, one abortion.After the war, in 1945, I was afraid of everything. My leg was amputated when I was still very young. I had to use crutches for a long time, then I got a prosthetic leg and it became easier to walk. .When I was 20 years old, I got pregnant. Ivan and I were not a couple. We just met from time to time. When I told him I was pregnant, he looked at me in silence and left. His mother was against me having a baby. She said that they did not need a child from a crippled daughter-in-law, that I had to have an abortion. .I was upset. I had an abortion. I thought that without a leg I was a cripple, and nobody needed me like that. I never again let anyone close, I decided that I would stay alone. All my life I worked as a seamstress in a small town in the north of Belarus. .I do not regret having an abortion - I didn't want to raise the child on my own. (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 IT MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED AS PART OF AN ARTICLE OR ANY OTHER ITEM THAT CONTAINS NO DIRECT LINK TO WORLD PRESS PHOTO AND ITS ACTIVITIES.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.