While adults may be convinced by our own sales talk— we often introduce puberty as a joyous blossoming of womanhood—most tween girls don’t buy it. And why should they? However we choose to describe the facts of puberty, many girls actually hear: “Get ready, ladies, because that body of yours that has hardly given you any trouble up till now is about to gain smelly armpits that you’ll need to deodorize, sprout hair that you may choose to shave, erupt pimples right on your face, and develop breasts that will inevitably be compared to those of your female classmates. Oh, and did we mention that
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