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You're a

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lawyer a little

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news or lose

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or are you good.

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Just to tell that the more.

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The whole truth of the scandal first reading
out of this than to call East it seems

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to you that every.

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Comic. I've got now.

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Goodness smiling

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and certainly growing up.

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Good morning. Girls. This morning.

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Molly doesn't hurt at all but
you'd better stop by my office

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and let me take a look at it
it won't take a minute. OK.

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OK Molly let's take a look.

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Oh yes oh that's going up just fine.

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The games I shared with you please let
someone else do the cheering for you because

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that's what a still
slightly inflamed careful.

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Oh by the way my way your mother left her
gloves over my house last night we were

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taken to our shared always
leaving them but you know.

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You know I've known Molly and her family
ever since she first came to school

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and I think you might
like to know where to.

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Molly in Missouri home
with her father her mother

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and her older sister Jean.

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Jeannie and Molly each have their
own rooms but lately it seems

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that Molly is more interested
in Jeannie's room than her own.

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Molly and Jeannie get along
well about as most sisters do.

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Mally. What do you think
you're doing nothing.

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Genie I haven't come into.

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Honestly Molly problem any kind of I
absolutely my single are all telling

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him you didn't get off
the list because there.

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I was going to hurt your old
thing. I just want to try the.

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Well why don't you ask Mother
some things of your own.

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You're old enough

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to me when you think I'll start
having periods to oh I don't know.

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Pretty soon I suppose. I was
thirteen when I started.

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So Peggy's already started hairs and I'm
six months older than she is well so what.

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So I'm starting earlier so later we're
all different from the way you've been

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acting but we shouldn't be long now.

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The one day not long after

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that Molly came home from school.

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That you Molly. Oh I forgot a day.

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Did you have today. Mom guess what.

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I don't know what mom I
started my first period.

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Well what do you know. Today. Tell
me about it when does it start.

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Well it was this afternoon when I
was changing into my gym clothes

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and I noticed a bit of blood on my panties

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and godly At first I thought
well I don't know what to think

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and then I remembered when we talked
about men or menstruation menstruation

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and stuff. Well then I went
to see Miss Jesson Oh my God.

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How do you feel. Kind of funny like I
mean I was hoping it would start soon.

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That seems like I forgotten
everything you've told me. All right.

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I tell you what we'll do tonight will
be mother and daughter conference night

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and if you'll give me a hand with supper
we'll get started. That was earlier.

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OK I want the ride down. Really.

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Long at all before
you're quite used to it.

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You see how do you meant to Asian is
perfectly normal it happens every much this

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year.

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So why not own your part of being
a woman I guess course right at

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first you probably won't be very regular
most girls don't settle down for a year

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or so.

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Even then some girls go more than a month
between periods another joyous that's

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normal too and eventually your
body will set up its own.

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Regular time we set up
Molly. Time comes to vote.

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Well if you sit and stand straight.

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That'll give the organs inside
your body room to function better.

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And that'll make you feel
better. I'll get it.

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That's probably why. Hello.

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Oh Hi Peggy. Cherie
just a minute I'll ask.

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Mom can I go swimming with Teddy to morrow
after school I don't think I would not

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be home by five thirty.
No it's not a good idea.

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The first two or three days of your period.
You might get to know them catch cold.

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Oh that's right. Peggy Of
course I can't go swimming.

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You know I've got the curry
rats trying to do a good idea.

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The first couple of days.

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Oh oh oh good heavens.

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Molly you're going like a weed. I'm going
to have to let that happen down again.

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Come on I'll do it right now.

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OK it's it's you know

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I've often wondered why it is that some
women still call menstruation the curse.

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I don't know why he calls it that and
it is kind of a nuisance in this.

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I suppose it is sometimes it's just

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that it sounded sort of old fashioned
we say it's what do you do up to zero

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and with a fight. Yeah it's not bad.

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It's something wrong with our area law we
ought to be getting a better picture than

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that because all the talk about it
and here it is a private conference.

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No I don't think they owed you Molly
you know I guess you tell them.

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Well Jim Molly's growing up. She's
having her first menstrual period right.

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Already. Alice I thought well I mean after
all the only adult down he says so.

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I am not a baby anymore I know there but.

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Now I know honey I guess you are.

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Growing up. It's fun

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but some of the things Molly used
to do seem a little silly now.

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Sometimes she gets all mixed
up just thinking about it.

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She's changing from a child into an adult
and it's a little confusing at times.

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Molly had lots of questions about what was
happening to her It so happened I had a

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chance to answer some of them.

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Her teacher was sick one day and
asked me to take her class.

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And this is true of women everywhere.

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So you see menstruation is just the natural
normal process leading up to being a

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mother.

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This is a diagram of the uterus or womb

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and these are the fallopian
tubes leading to it.

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And these the ovaries which
produce the egg cells.

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Now these egg cells are far
too small for us to see.

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But once each month an egg cell will leave
one of the ovaries go into the opening

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of the tube nearest to it and then
it's on its way to the uterus.

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Now at the same time the uterus has been
preparing a growing place for this egg a

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soft lining of blood vessels and tissues.

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If the egg unites with a male cell

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or sperm as it's on its way down
the tube it is fertilized and then

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when it reaches the uterus it
settles down in the soft lining

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and begins to grow into a baby.

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If the egg cell is not
fertilized it disappears.

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And then.

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Since the lining is no longer
needed it to dissolve away.

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And explode out of the body
through an opening in the hymen.

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Which is a membrane over
the opening of the vagina.

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And so we say that we are
menstruating. Yes Barbara.

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This Janssen was menstruation
started while some girls start

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when they're ten years old and
someone they're sixteen or seventeen

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or anywhere in between. But the average
age seems to be about thirteen.

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No I knew what day of the
week. What starts. My mother.

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Starts on Tuesday well mine too.

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Oh it might but it probably won't because
each girl's body sets up her own time

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and rhythms.

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And the time between periods may vary anywhere
from twenty three to thirty two days.

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And the floor last from two to seven days
also depending on the girl's own rhythm.

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This can sense. How often should you
change napkins when you Mr Ayling Well

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that depends on the amount of flow.
But probably five or six times a day.

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And that brings up another point.

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Many of your girls haven't
started to menstruate yet but

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when you do you will want to use a sanitary
napkin to absorb the slopes it's a soft

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absorbent pad and it's made to sit
over the opening of the vagina

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and to follow the curve of the body.

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It's the tab ends are attached to a
narrow elastic belt which you can

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wear around your hips or waist. It's
now. Some girls prefer to use tampons.

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But tampon is a cylinder of observant
cotton inside the cardboard applicator

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that is inserted into the vagina
by means of the F A K two.

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It's a cotton absorbs the flow and

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when it is full you remove it and
discard its Yes Molly. This Jensen.

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Is it to the people can tell
a human today. No it isn't.

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But you should be more careful than
ever about personal cleanliness

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and thinking to change
your underwear more often.

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Be sure and use a deodorant and pay more
attention to your hair and your nails

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and plan to wear your prettiest dress in
other words be your most attractive self

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and remember menstruation is only a part
of growing up as you grow your body

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changes from that of a young
girl to that of a woman.

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It's becoming round with
the beginnings of a bosom

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and the start of a real waistline and hips

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and here is beginning to grow in different
places too big hair and underarm hair.

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Yes that Jansen learned that
dancing. Can you when you maintain.

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Yes you can with moderation in fact you
can do most of the things you usually do

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you can bang his or shower as long as yours
warm water and you can wash your hair.

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If you're sure to dry it
quickly and you can swim.

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If you wait until after two or three
days at the beginning of your period.

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And you can go to dances and picnics.
But it's not a very good idea to skate.

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Or ride horseback or play fast games
like volleyball and basketball

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or do strenuous dancing like
square dancing or anything

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that has your around a lot in
general mild exercise are best ones

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that strengthen the abdominal
muscles are particularly good.

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It's sensible to avoid strenuous
exercise when you're menstruating.

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And you'll be sure

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and tell your mother army if everything
doesn't seem to be just right now I'd like

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each of you to take one of these
booklets about menstruation.

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And when you finish reading it.
If you have any questions.

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Be sure and come and see me and remember.

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Menstruation is as normal and natural
as eating or breathing or sleeping.

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Soon Molly will be a young woman like
a genie having dates going to dances

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and lovely romantic dresses and
making new and important friends.

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There are so many wonderful
things to look forward to

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growing up. It's an exciting time.