It was the day of my 12th birthday. i was sitting in the living room with my parents and my older brother when all of a sudden i felt these horrible pains and felt like i had to pee. when i went to the bathroom, i started to cry and i screamed extremely loud, i had no idea what was happening to me, and i thought i was dying or something along the lines. i mean i was in pain and bleeding. so  my mother came running from the living room and like to have busted down the door and she asked me why i was screaming nad crying and when i told her to look into the toliet she started to laugh at me and she ran over and hugged me and told me that i was growing up. she had me call up my older sister, my aunt darlene and my granny faye and tell them the news, like it was soemthing to be extremely proud of or soemthing. thats when i realized that i was growing up, that i was no longer a little girl but i was becoming a woman slowly but surely. yes it freaked me out at first and scared me, but growing up comes with alot of situations that are goin to freak you out and scare you. its a part of life.

---Julie