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“I got my first period just after my 10th birthday on a family road-trip camping vacation from the Midwest to the Southeast US coast. My mother noticed the stain in the laundry and tried to say it was a streak of a different kind, because it was dried blood.
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My First Grader Handed Me A 9-Word Note. When I Read It, My Stomach Dropped.
November 10, 2025
Motherhood complicates my own mental health because my responsibility extends beyond my own mind. My heart lives outside my body at all times — inside my little girl and my little boy. I feel their joy as much as I feel their pain. I feel what they feel, and I feel…
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