"I've never told anyone this, but...": First Tellings of College-Aged Women's Reproductive Healthcare Experiences.

Telling a story for the first time is a profound experience for both a storyteller and story-listener. This essay describes the significance of first tellings as a narrative event that captures the complexities of the untold stories about young women's reproductive healthcare experiences. Additionally, this essay identifies the importance of first-told stories and explores how the storyteller and story-listener grapple with these narrative events. It also considers how first tellings may affect story-listeners' roles and influence storytellers' identity construction and framing strategies for subsequent tellings of the same story.