Have you noticed that your body is playing little tricks on you lately? If
you are a boy, you may have noticed your legs, face, arms, and chest are
becoming covered with thick, black hairs and your voice may be beginning to
sound like a phonograph needle ruining your favorite stack of platters. If
you are a girl, you may have noticed a painful swelling up here and some
more funny business going on down there.
These dramatic changes can mean only one thing: cholera. If you are not
among the lucky ones, then it simply means you are becoming a young man or
a young woman, depending on how much fluoride they dumped in your parents'
drinking water. I know that such changes can often be difficult for growing
teens, but try to weather the storm and "grin and bear it." There is always
impotence and menopause.
-- Doug Kenney