 Judy Blume has said that her parents weren't terribly candid with her about menstruation. She has a memory of going to visit her older cousins one day and being in the car on the way home and asking over and over again, what was wrong with my cousin who was around 13 because she was sick in bed? And her parents wouldn't tell her outright. They would say, you know, you'll figure it out when you're a teenager. And she knew that there was something going on that grownups weren't telling her.