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    I Woke Up In Love This Morning
    I Woke Up In Love This Morning
    I Woke Up In Love This Morning
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    I Woke Up In Love This Morning

    By Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

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    Three short stories that highlight two girls' coming of age in different eras. From a girl's first period to another girl risking punishment in a parking lot, Gibbons explores what it's like to be a young girl in suburban Northern California.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJennifer Kathleen Gibbons
    Release dateJan 24, 2012
    ISBN9781465712578
    I Woke Up In Love This Morning
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    Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

    Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons lives in Lafayette, California with many books and two spoiled cats. She is working on a young adult novel and a book of essays.

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      I Woke Up In Love This Morning - Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

      I Woke Up In Love This Morning

      Short stories

      By

      Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

      I Woke Up In Love This Morning

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2012 by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

      Cover design by Renphoto/Rose Daniels

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      For the girls:

      Laurel Benjamin, Meranda Broder, Susan Browne, Jean Cobb, Elizabeth Davis, Heather Harlan Greenwalt, Lilly-Marie Lamar, Ivory Madison, Molly McEnerney,Joyce O’Connor,Sericea Vasankari and Laura Zink.

      We are definitely the ones people are talking about when they say girls rule.

      Table of Contents

      I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar

      My Angel Is A Centerfold

      I Woke Up In Love This Morning

      I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar!

      My first period made its debut in July, 1984. I was twelve, in bed after I just got back from doing my paper route, trying to go back to sleep. I was having the worst cramps. I had them all summer, but that morning was the worst. Before that morning, I counted out loud when I had them, trying to distract myself. One two three… by ten the cramps would be gone. That morning the cramps had no end. Twenty, thirty, forty, fifty. Tears formed in my eyes. God, make it stop, please!

      Then I felt this whoosh between my legs. The cramps drifted away from my body, like a boat leaving the port. I waved good-bye to them and I fell asleep.

      That summer Mom was temping, so some days she had off. My younger brother Patrick was at day camp so we watched the soaps,

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