Hey, this is Annie and Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff On Never Told You, production of I Heart Radio.

For today's question, I'm asking one that I guess I kind of talked about a little bit

before, but do you remember when you got your first period?

I do.

I was 12 years old and I had been excited about it mainly because I have watched way too

many sitcoms about how this is a celebration of womanhood and how this is such a big deal.

And I'm thinking my mom's going to at least give me like, I don't know a present of source

that tells me about it.

Instead, I got sent to my nurse's office who handed me a pad who I went home and my mom

was like, okay, well, I'll buy you some pads.

And that was the end of the story.

I was like, cool, cool, cool.

And then after that, I probably had some of the worst cramps ever and I hated everything.

Everything.

Yeah.

And it took a little while before I started wearing tampons, but man, those pads were so uncomfortable

and gross.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I was nine and we were going to a field trip through the Fox Theater.

Oh, yeah.

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