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Are you getting your period? She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period. Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Eyes
Narrows
Getting
Blamed
Eye
Happily
Hate
Period
Anything
Credit
Sometimes
Periods
Every
Negative
Hormonal
Full
Unattached

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