The Care and Keeping of You

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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When Valorie Lee Schaefer was asked to write a book about puberty for kids, her first thought was, “Why me?” But as she got to work on it, she realized, “Every girl thinks that they're a freak of nature.” A new, updated edition of The Care and Keeping of You is out now. We're going back on tour in February! We’ll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. We can’t wait to see you there! Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 Want to listen to This is Love ad-free? Sign up for Criminal Plus – you’ll get This is Love, Criminal, and Phoebe Reads a Mystery ad-free. Plus, behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal and other exclusive benefits. Learn more and sign up here. We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.7	woman's marathon marathon. I was thinking the other day about how when I was growing up we had sanitary napkins.
1:15.4	We didn't have like pads that you pulled the adhesive off of and stuck in your panties.
1:19.8	We had like these crazy elastic belts that you pull the napkin tails through, you know, sort of
1:27.8	of for an aft and they were the strangest thing. Valerie Lee Schaefer was born in South Korea.
1:36.0	When she was two years old, she was adopted by an American family.
1:40.0	She grew up in rural Wisconsin in the 1960s and 70s.
1:45.0	She says it was up to her to entertain herself.
1:49.0	She describes her childhood as semi-ferral.
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