Play It as It Lays

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THE BLEEDING BEGAN a few weeks later. "It's nothing," the doctor on Wilshire said when she finally went.

"Whoever did it did all right. It's clean, no infection, count your blessings."

"The pain."

"You're just menstruating early, I'll give you some Edrisal."

The Edrisal did not work and neither did some Darvon she found in the bathroom and she slept that night with a gin bottle by her bed. She did not think she was menstruating. She wanted to talk to her mother.