text:  Were you shocked? Was it upsetting to you to find that out? Yes, and then it was a girlfriend who taught me about menstruation in the bushes, an older girl, also in Frankfurt. Before I went to Switzerland, my mother and grandmother said, we have to tell you some things before you go. I said, don't talk to me. I know it all. I didn't know it all, but that's what I thought I knew it all.