(Margaret, 12, had nothing on meapologies to Our Patron Saint of Girlhood, Judy Blume.)
It did not fail!
with a tampon (!!)
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as I changed into my dreaded gym shorts (!!!)
before heading down to the field to play soccer.
The experiment was not a success.
This mortifying memory came flooding (surging?
back a few days ago, when an imbecilic/genius (?
Real a-hole, right?
Again, I say, diabolical!)
Is that the science?
In the name of Tampon Tim I say, never again!
Upon seeing that meme and theensuing nonsense, I felt the last vestiges of pointless embarrassment leave my body.
And if they were commonplace and unremarkable, good golly, what then?
How different might my early mortifying experiences have been?
Certainly not totallyun-embarrassingnothing to do with being a 14-year-old girl is embarrassment free, I know that!
And how different might so many experiences involving my period, or my body in general, have been?
)symptoms that are distressing at best,signs of something deadlyat worst?
I almost cant imagine it!
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