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[susandennis]

On Google+ (https://plus.google.com/110340962945642622580/posts/Pe9Pv2pgqAi), I said:

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I was 22 when Our Bodies, Our Selves first came out. It was so amazing. It changed my life in a way that no other book every has before or since. My first copy got so dog eared, I had to buy a second. It was like we had been living in the dark for 22 years and then someone switched on the light. We'd read and re-read and discuss stuff from the book that the generations before us were not allowed to even say out loud. It's hard to believe now - how the hell I made it to 22 without knowing that stuff. I'm so glad no other girl has to.
NBC Nightly News has a nice piece about the 40th anniversary and their website has some In their Own Words from the writers and women of the time.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/ns/nightly_news/#45037518NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: News and videos from the evening broadcast- msnbc.com

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[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I remember that book, and don't know whatever became of my copy.

[vasilatos]

Don't know if I'd read it before, but my mother gave me a copy when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer and went for a hysterectomy so I would understand what was going on. That was thirty years ago, and she's still going strong. YAY.