No one listened to her. They all said she had cramps, but she knew something was wrong. She just wasn’t exactly sure what it was. Born with a medical abnormality — uterus didelphys — sophomore Mary...

The fall of 2012 is when I began to notice that my pink, satin pointe shoes started to blacken. The ribbons, normally a vibrant color, had possessed a life of their own and transformed into an ebony vise...