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title: It never occured to me
date: 2011-02-03T04:53:11-05:00
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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# It never occured to me

By Our Bodies Ourselves • February 3, 2011

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Submitted by: Anonymous  
  
I was blessed-gifted-chanced with the most beautiful, most kind and most loving parents. They taught me to love learning; reading; experiencing. I can tell them everything. My mother, when I was 9 and three quarters, bought me yet another book to quench my thirst for knowledge. This book was "Our Bodies, Ourselves."  
  
The first thing I noticed was the size, a several hundred page paperback. The second, the fact that it was nonfiction. Third, the pink on it's cover. I did not like pink. I still do not like pink, not for it's connotations, or that fact that it is the only shade of a color to have a name-I digress. I poured through "Our Bodies, Ourselves." I learned so much I did not ask my mother about. Not because I was embarrassed to ask her, but because it would never to occurred to me that that goes there...  
  
*In this series, readers [tell their stories](/history/reading-our-bodies-ourselves/ "Reading Our Bodies, Ourselves") about their experiences with the book and its impact on their lives. [View more stories](/category/our-bodies-ourselves/readers-stories/).*

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