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for his job. Kate's friends see Kate and Ollie's relationship as the greatest relationship there could ever be and they envy her for it; even her lesbian friend thinks she would be crazy to leave him. Kate decides it is for the best not to tell Ollie about the pregnancy, despite her friends telling
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her she should. The film suggests that Kate may have had an affair with her "slow student" and may be the real reason why she wants an abortion. However, we find out that Ollie purposely poked holes in the condom, attempting to save their relationship together by having a child.
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diet can make one have a natural abortion. Kate then goes on to constantly eat parsley and at one point in the film, even bathe in parsley. Ollie is "the king of contraception", where he counsels people on
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is the way in which a fictional situation can be represented alongside the real situation, possible to show a change in events or sequence of events, in the past, present or future.
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