My mother is from Transylvania. They never heard of Dracula there. The novel was written in the UK and Romanians knew nothing of it. I asked her once years ago if she knew about the story as a child and she just laughed at me like “silly American girl” and said no.

When I was 17 years old, I took a friend of mine to PP to get us both on birth control mainly because she had several pregnancy scares and I had one when the condom broke. As a high school kid with strict parents having a place to go where I could pay next to nothing and no one would judge me (my mother had already…