Period. Full Stop. It happened all of a sudden: I missed a period. Once upon a time—okay, a very long time ago—I used to get pregnant quite easily. (In fact, a friend of mine joked that she and I almost didn’t need sexual contact, that a visual contact would do.) All joking aside, I seriously wondered if I was pregnant and bought a pregnancy test, not telling anyone as I was a bit embarrassed because of my age, which came up negative. Then a few days later I got my period. Af