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" AGE 10 Blood comes out of your what? Noooo. That&amp;#039;s just for witches. Right? AGE 13 Oh my God, what even is this book Mom left on my bed? The title is It&amp;#039;s A Girl Thing To Grow Hair And Bleed So Don&amp;#039;t Worry About It But Please Don&amp;#039;t Bring It Up To Me In The Car Because It&amp;#039;s Too Awkward. So lame. Whatever, I&amp;#039;ll just tell her I read it. AGE 14 WHY AM I GETTING MY PERIOD. My God. I&amp;#039;m dying. I&amp;#039;m dying. Why is it so dark? Like, darker than normal blood? AND ALSO IT HURTS. This is it. The end. There&amp;#039;s a long tunnel, and a light at the end of it. Swing low, sweet chariot, coming for to carry me hoooooooooooooooo\u2014 AGE 15 Jillian Anzuini has blood on the back of her pants. Nobody&amp;#039;s telling her. It&amp;#039;s already 3 PM, why isn&amp;#039;t anyone telling her that she&amp;#039;s perioding in front of everyone? Why aren&amp;#039;t I telling her? I&amp;#039;m a horrible person. She&amp;#039;s sitting down. She&amp;#039;s getting up. SHE&amp;#039;S LEAVING BLOOD ON THE SEAT. I can&amp;#039;t. I need to tell her. I can&amp;#039;t tell her. AGE 18 We have that beach house for after-prom, but what if I have my period? Will Kevin still want to have sex with me if I have my period? Who would do that? Who&amp;#039;d even finger someone on their period? A serial killer, that&amp;#039;s who. On the bright side\u2026 wait, I forget, can you not get pregnant when you do have it or when you don&amp;#039;t? Whatever. Sometimes I&amp;#039;m so jealous of Kayla for being on the pill. She says it&amp;#039;s because she has a super-irregular menstrual cycle, but we all know it&amp;#039;s because she&amp;#039;s having sex with Devin. Just, like, tell the truth, Kayla. AGE 20 Oh, crap, this was expensive underwear. But at least I didn&amp;#039;t Jillian Anzuini all over myself. AGE 21 WHY AM I NOT GETTING MY PERIOD.  Why am I not on the pill? Why am I a moron? What was his name? Kevin? Kyle? It&amp;#039;s probably not the name that&amp;#039;s in my phone, which is &amp;quot;Zeta Tau party Hottttt.&amp;quot; AGE 22 Oh, come on. We can still have sex! I&amp;#039;m just dropping one tiny egg, that&amp;#039;s all. Don&amp;#039;t be such a baby. It&amp;#039;s just a little blood. We can put a towel down. AGE 30 OR SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE-ISH Sweet, no period for nine months! AGE 49 I&amp;#039;m sweating. Is this menopause or is it just really hot out? AGE 51 No more cramps! Being post-menopausal is the shit.  Follow Anna on Twitter.   Image via Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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