When it happened to me, I didn't call it a "flash period," the name used on a recent episode of And Just Like That... for the completely out-of-the-blue period that can hit during peri-menopause. I called it a "bus buster." My sons called it...well, my sons didn't call it anything. It's an episode they never, ever want to remember.
I was taking my sons and two nieces on a day-long bus tour from London to Windsor and then on to Stonehenge and Bath. I was 54 at the time and hadn't had a period in about eight months. I thought I was probably done with the whole mess, since this was the age my mother and sister finished their periods.
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