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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Episode Rundown
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
