Samuel Clemens wrote, “The clothes make the man.” Well, this applies to women too.
When I was eleven, I went through menarche. So the women in my family threw me a party. It happened in the morning before I went to school. Unbeknownst to me, they called my school while I was on the bus, and arranged to have the party in my classroom. Now, to a fifth grader, the kids in that room are the only people in the world, and I didn’t want anyone to know. …Continue Reading