HOW MANY euphemisms can you think of for menstruation? In Karen Houppert's engaging new book, The Curse, the book's endpapers are lined with examples of doublespeak on the subject. There's everything from the prosaic ("monthlies") to the coy ("Aunt Flo is visiting") to the downright odd (from Norway, the declaration that there are "communists in the summer house").
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Are there communists in your summer house?
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