WHEN I WAS LITTLE,THE CORNER STORE HAD A DISPLAY OF KOTEX IN THE WINDOW. WHEN I ASK MY MOM WHAT THEY WERE SHE SAID A WOMAN PUT THEM UNDER HER ARM PITS TO KEEP FROM SWEATING ON HER CLOTHES. WISH IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT SIMPLE.
A childhood belief about periods
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the clothes in the thrift store were new— Ellie
- When I was a kid I thought rape just meant someone tearing the clothes off of a woman's body.— Matt
- I used to believe that if you swallowed cherry pits, you would have a tree growing in your stomach.— porkchop
- A friend of mine thought that some olives grew with red edible pits (pimentos).— HA
- I used to believe that the short display beds at department stores were for dwarfs.— p
- That babies were born with clothes on - I once asked my mum where the clothes I was born in were =]— Liadhain