I Woke Up In Love This Morning
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Three short stories that highlight two girls' coming of age in different eras. From a girl's first period to another girl risking punishment in a parking lot, Gibbons explores what it's like to be a young girl in suburban Northern California.
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California with many books and two spoiled cats. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.
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I Woke Up In Love This Morning - Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
I Woke Up In Love This Morning
Short stories
By
Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
I Woke Up In Love This Morning
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Copyright 2012 by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons
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Table of Contents
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
My Angel Is A Centerfold
I Woke Up In Love This Morning
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar!
My first period made its debut in July, 1984. I was twelve, in bed after I just got back from doing my paper route, trying to go back to sleep. I was having the worst cramps. I had them all summer, but that morning was the worst. Before that morning, I counted out loud when I had them, trying to distract myself. One two three… by ten the cramps would be gone. That morning the cramps had no end. Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. Tears formed in my eyes. God, make it stop, please!
Then I felt this whoosh between my legs. The cramps drifted away from my body, like a boat leaving the port. I waved good-bye to them and I fell asleep.
That summer Mom was temping, so some days she had off. My younger brother Patrick was at day camp so we watched the soaps,