Bloody Punctuation

I used to think that a menstrual period's name came from the fact it resembled a punctuation period—just a little dot that showed up once a month.

I thought this up until a fateful day at age eleven when I woke up with my gift and promptly went off to school worry-free wearing white shorts.

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