You might be tempted to think of Tad as a young man, being fourteen and all, but that’s not really the case. Boys remain young so much longer than girls do, you know. Regardless of what your tropes teach you, girls are the realists, boys the idealists. They cling to dreams and fantasies so much longer. Maybe that’s because, while they’re slaying dragons and clearing post-apocalyptic towns on big screens, their sisters are measuring out their real, live blood in toilets and pads and accepting the reality that their bodies can produce and host a life entirely separate from its own. Maybe it’s
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This is an incredibly powerful and true statement.
