Rude period question sparks blunt coping tips in Dear Abby
A reader asks how to answer strangers who press about a 13 year old daughter’s first period. Abby suggests polite private matters for acquaintances and a playful curb with a joke. Other letters discuss setting up a date between a friend and a relative and a teen frustrated by a piano teacher’s chronic lateness.
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