October 1991 Teen Life: Best Friendship, Sweat Glands & The Sassiest Boy They Could Find

Can you maintain a close relationship with your best friends from high school? What's it like to have a port wine birthmark? How many guys say they've been cheated on? And…what's up with the Israeli-Palestinian peace process? One of these things is obviously not like the others, which is why we leave it to you to discover rather than wading into the quagmire ourselves. But! We also tell you about Mike Clark, the adorable new Sassiest Boy In America; an enjoyably offbeat fiction story; and what we think of abbreviating the word "tampons" to just "'pons." Light some incense -- ASSUMING YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE THAT A BUNCH THIS WEEK -- and join us!

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TOPICS
🎧 It Is October 1991
🎧 Feature: Best Friends: Can They Last Or What?
🎧 Feature: Israeli And Palestinian Kids Tell You Why They Can’t Live In Peace
🎧 Feature: Mike: The Sassiest Boy We Could Find
🎧 Fiction: Friends & Rivals
🎧 Body Talk
🎧 What He Said: Have You Ever Been Cheated On?
🎧 Help For Him
🎧 On The Road: Portland, OR
🎧 It Happened To Me: Port Wine Birthmark
🎧 Stuff You Wrote
🎧 Goodbye For Now

NOTES
🍔 Jamie's Hamburgers commercial on YouTube
🦌 "That One Time Portland Was In 'Sassy' In 1991" in PDX Monthly
📖 Sheila Heti on Wikipedia
🔮 Liz Wermcrantz on TikTok
🥴 The Drunk Dave episode of Extra Extra Hot Great
🎬 The One Act Film website