Bush

May, 2014

Through thick and thin.A personal history of(and a modest theory about)bushI found my first pubic hair during a sleep-over at Kyla Warren's house. It was her 13th birthday, and while everyone else watched The Exorcist in the living room, my best friend, Aimee, and I—terrified—hid in the bathroom. During our sequester­ing, conversation turned to puberty, and that naturally led to our standing back-to-back and checking ourselves for pubes. "Oh my God," I said. "I have one hair!How l...