My Letter To Aunt Flo
Dear Aunt Flo,
I was shocked and surprised to see you today. You were so late in coming, I was sure you’d decided to put off your monthly visit for nine months or so. Typically, you’re reliable and trustworthy – showing up every twenty-eight days like clock work to remind me I’m a woman. I recall, twenty four years ago, when you showed up on my door step unannounced. I had no idea who you were and when I asked my dad about you, he just shook his head and took me to the drug store.
I had always relied on your timely arrival, with few exceptions. Both times, unexpectedly, you told me that I’d be a mother, by becoming absent from my life for nine months.
Aunt Flo, you’ve become a constant companion in my life and I appreciate your dutiful attendance every month, even if my husband doesn’t. But that’s not why I’m writing to you, my ever diligent Aunt Flo.
Today, I am writing to tell you how disappointed I am that you have decided to play games with me. Since my marriage, I have tried to put off your visit for nine months a number of times. Yet you continue to come, every twenty eight days, uninvited and with an axe to grind. I thought, for sure, this month, you’d take the hint and stay away, so I was quite surprised when you showed up, later than usual, thirty one days after your last visit.
You see, Aunt Flo, I know that you being in my life helps me remember my role as a woman and most of the time I can breeze through your visit with very little disruption. However this time, it’s different.
Today, I cried when I discovered that you’d shown up, uninvited. I had hoped, on Monday when you’d not shown up at your appointed time, that it would mean I’d get a nine month reprieve. We’d been trying so hard to keep you at bay. Yet here you are.
I’m not sure why, Aunt Flo, you can’t seem to take a hint. I have been more than nice to you in my requests. I simply want one tiny vacation from your monthly visits and I don’t think my request is too much to ask.
I know this may come as a shock, so I understand if you need time to absorb my thoughts so lovingly displayed in this letter. I also know, at some point in the future, you will stop visiting me for good and I’m sure I’ll miss you when you’re gone, but that doesn’t’ change the fact that today, Aunt Flo, you’ve showed up again, uninvited and you’re really starting to piss me off.
Love,
Brandy
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Oh.
*hugs to you* Stupid Aunt Flo.
I didn’t know
Sorry I got the news this way tho ((( Hugs )))
(((Brandy))) I understand, and I am sorry!