Treating illnesses is much the same. In a big city hospital, when you go to see a gynecologist for a physical checkup or something similar, stripping off your clothes feels completely normal.
Yet here in this small town, if you asked these married women and young ladies to undergo such an examination, it would be no different from killing them. They would rather leave their illnesses untreated than ever let it happen.
Undressing in front of a stranger and exposing those shameful parts of their bodies was simply harder for them to bear than death itself.
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