Today is the 13th anniversary of my first period. That's right. I have officially been a menstruating female for 13 years. That is more than half my life.

When I was 10 years old, I was impossibly close to my childhood friend Diane. We lived in the same neighborhood, were in the same grade, walked home from school together, played Barbie and [respective NKOTB doll of choice - Ken definitely did not measure up] together... when I got my period, none of my other friends had ever gotten it and the only thing I really knew about it was that Elizabeth Wakefield got it before her twin sister Jessica (of Sweet Valley Twins fame, for those who were thusly unenlightened) and so Jessica lied and pretended that she got it too. Anyway, I didn't want anyone else to know, and I certainly didn't think it would be something that my mom would go out and blab about.

Cut to several days later. I'm at Diane's house playing in her room and she suddenly goes, "Do you have something to tell me?"

"No," I say. "Do you have something to tell me?"
"No."
"Are you sure?"
"No. Are you?"
"I don't know..."

She gives me a scrap of paper. "Why don't you write down your secret on here and I'll write mine on here."

"Okay." So I write, "I got my period." She scribbles something down on hers. We swap, and I open hers.

It says: "Did you get your period?"

WHAT A CHEATER!!

Turns out she got hers, too, and our moms told each other, and her mom told her but my mom was not nice enough to tell me.

Happy anniversary to me!

comments

oh how i love you (i actually wrote 'lover'... which is also true according to the facebook.com)

tatiana | August 31, 2006 12:26 AM

hahahahahaha. i remember that book where elizabeth got her period. i also thought of are you there god, it's me margaret when i read this post. >sighhahahahahaha. i remember that book where elizabeth got her period. i also thought of are you there god, it's me margaret when i read this post. >sigh

Jueli | August 31, 2006 2:56 AM

Hm, I remember mine too. Sort of. Well I really just remember my GRANDMOTHER telling some random asian-lady-friend, who in turn told her SON.

Victoria | August 31, 2006 11:14 PM