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Regarding his furniture:"There is the 'couch of fertility', which is so named because it was bought from people in Adams who got it from a woman who had to leave after she got pregnant...
...interiors appear simple a serene; close inspection reveals a sparse and tense atmosphere. Hammershoi relentlessly emphasizes doors, windowframes, skirting boards and architectural form to create a rigid geometry to his compositions, yet renders those visual lines slightly warped. This combination generates intriguingly ambiguous canvases, with an air of pregnant expectation and strain: the very arms of the subject in Interior with Woman Standing at a Table (1899) reach and clutch with sinuous tension...
Although she knew she wasn't pregnant, the sophomore says she did not have the strength or the know-how to counter the advice of a health professional...
Grady Memorial's Project Prevent, funded by a $450,000 federal grant, is perhaps the most aggressive program, cooperating with Atlanta's police and homeless shelters to recruit pregnant drug abusers. Each woman receives personal attention from project adviser-advocates. The program also pays for transportation and other child-care costs until the birth. Chicago's Haymarket House even houses its clients during pregnancy and provides follow-up services for as long as three years. Says director Wanda Thomaston of her clients: "It's often their first sober pregnancy. They've never felt their babies move or experienced labor pains...
Instead she moved back home to Washington and met a cafeteria worker named Corey Shackleford. He said he loved her but had a nonnegotiable demand: she must get clean. Holland allows herself a small smile. "He'd led a sheltered life," she says. Nonetheless, that November, four months pregnant, she presented herself at D.C. General. "I told them I was a heroin and cocaine user, and sick and tired of getting high," she says. The hospital enrolled her in the maternal-health project...