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For several agonizing minutes, they sit together saying nothing, as Black Sabbath’s mystical ballad “Solitude” plays softly on the stereo.

"Adenomyosis and endometriosis are different diseases, but there are similarities – people can present with heavy periods, agonizing pain often with periods but it can be throughout the menstrual cycle."

He agonized over the couple’s son, who had just witnessed his mother’s violent death, and vowed not to cheat the law with “subterfuge.”

Each week TikTok videos, podcasts and fan reactions on social media predict and agonize over who the young heroine, now finishing college abroad, will choose.

But writing it, reconciling with his past, would prove pretty agonizing in its own right.