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On a muggy Sunday last November, volunteers shuffled into Leimert Park’s Fernando Pullum Arts Center clutching boxes of tampons and pads.

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On a muggy Sunday last November, volunteers shuffled into Leimert Park’s Fernando Pullum Arts Center clutching boxes of tampons and pads.

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