The Lost Girl
Tova Reich
1995
[…] Statistically speaking, in any given week at the school, the rabbi had once calculated, approximately one quarter of these girls, about seventy-five girls in all, had their periods. Could anyone imagine what it must be like to be living in the middle of all that? Sometimes he felt as if he were drowning in a thick soup. The constant smell of…
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