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Normally imposing, regal, commanding, Sarai was now tentative, almost deferential. It made Hagar feel strangely sure of herself to see her mistress so unsure. The feeling got stronger when she heard was Sarai wanted from her: Hagar was to try to have a child with Abram. There was a fine line between serving someone and doing something that person couldn\u2019t do alone, and Hagar knew she had just crossed it. She felt a tingling feeling, a sense that she had, for the first time in her life, just a bit of power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That feeling disappeared that night. She had long dreamed of what a relationship with a man would be like, and this was not it. No one asked her what she wanted, no one was attentive to her needs. The fact that this was her first time with a man was on no one\u2019s mind. She was ushered in by Sarai, and ushered out a few minutes later, also by Sarai. She felt confused. She felt used. She felt abused.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hagar had never really thought that her body was her own, but she thought that had limits. Her hands, her legs, even her head \u2013 those were all in the control of others. But she had imagined that being a mother would be something all her own, or to be shared with a partner of her choosing or done alone. But now even that was taken from her. She was to be a reproductive machine with no identity of her own, a vessel for her master\u2019s seed and her mistress\u2019s child. The most wondrous of live-giving experiences was stripped of its beauty, and Hagar was turned into a machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As she felt the stirrings of life within her, Hagar felt empowered and betrayed. She <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Atum, creating life from her body, but she was not even Hagar. The child growing within her \u2013 <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> child! \u2013 would not be hers. She would have to serve her own child, never hearing him call her \u201cMut,\u201d never being allowed to hug him before bed or kiss him when he got back from a trip. This was all too much to bear.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hagar began to make comments to Sarai that she knew she would regret. \u201cAre you looking forward to being a mother?\u201d \u201cWill all your friends be so happy that you\u2019re finally having a baby?\u201d \u201cSo, what will you name my child?\u201d Sarai was silent, always silent. 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