The April 1991 issue lulls you into a false sense of complacency by burying its biggest bummer feature in the middle of the island, but then there it is: "They're Shooting Horses." DAMN, KAREN! (Spoiler: this is a problem the U.S. government still hasn't solved -- hope you were sitting down to read this.) Around it, we get Christina's embedded report from a Black debutante ball in Georgia; Margie's mini-profiles of 5 people in cool and important jobs, What He Said about dating an unpopular girl, It Happened To Me from a conflicted breast-reduction surgery patient, and a lot more. Content warning for the fiction story: it's about a girl with the OLDEST MOM IN RECORDED HISTORY -- 60!!!!!



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TOPICS

🎧 It Is April 1991

🎧 Feature: Inside A Black Debutante Ball

🎧 Feature: They’re Shooting Horses

🎧 Feature: 5 Jobs That Aren’t Lame

🎧 Fiction: Sixteen To Sixty

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 On The Road: Baltimore

🎧 What He Said: Would You Date A Girl Less Popular Than You?

🎧 Help + Help For Him

🎧 It Happened To Me: Boobs

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now



NOTES

📆 The Wonder Years (2021) "Lads And Ladies And Us" at Fandom

💬 "Rough Draft" quote at QuoteFancy

🪧 "Rough Draft" banner on eBay

🐴 Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy

🐎 "US Judge In Nevada Hands Wild Horse Advocates Rare Victory In Ruling On Mustang Management Plans" at the AP

👧🏻 Citizen's Committee for Children of New York

🤝 "NYANA To Close After Long Run Here" at Jewish Telegraphic Agency

☮️ PeaceAction

📚 Enid Harlow's new story collection Voices at Livingston Press

🤧 "How Fast Is A Sneeze Versus A Cough?" at Each Breath from the American Lung Association

👙 Title 9

⛴️ "A Tour Of Baltimore's Inner Harbor"

👕 "Best Vintage & Thrift Stores In Baltimore"

🤕 "Top 15 Misconceptions Of Self-Injury" at Cornell

🔨 Leonid Brezhnev at Alpha History

🤨 George Whipple