That Time of the . . . Year

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That Time of the . . . Year

Seasonale May Make Monthly Periods Obsolete. But at What Psychological Price?

By Gettelman

Special to The Washington Post

Tuesday, June 8, 2004; Page HE01

How's this for a description of menstruation?

" Contact with it turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, seeds

in gardens dry up, and fruit of trees fall off. Hives of bees will die. Even

bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air.

To taste it drives dogs mad and affects their bite with an incurable poison. "

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23277-2004Jun7.html