#period
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Periods. No, not the punctuation mark but menstruation. What ought to be a celebrated and universally understood as a natural event, ends up being the bane of every woman's existence due to stigma. A woman's cycle, and all the accompanying glorious details, is one of the big unmentionables not only in Egypt, but in many parts of the world still today. For those who are unaware, a woman's menstruation cycle begins when the female body starts preparing for pregnancy. Menstruation,…