I knew that years ago—back when our knuckles dragged the ground—people would refer to menopause as “the change.” Just the same way they referred to a pregnancy as a woman being “with child” or “in the family way.”
Euphemisms have long surrounded the female body, but I thought they had been killed off long ago by the women’s movement, the sexual revolution, and mostly common sense.
But I was wrong.
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