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What EXACTLY did she see in the bathroom that made her upset?


I understand it was something "sex-ed", but was it supposed to be suggestive and not specific, or am I missing it?

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She got her period.

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In the novelization Vada explains when she went into the bathroom to pee she saw her underwear was stained with blood. She had heard about periods but decided she was bleeding too much for that and it HAD to mean her cancer had spread.

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vingke she didnt have cancer, she thought she did, she was obsessed with death and always thought she was dying or had cancer or a disease or a chicken bone in her throat

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Yeah, any time her father got a new corpse to embalm she would read what the cause of death was and suddenly think she had it. In the beginning of the movie she thought she had cancer because one breast was developing faster than the other.

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Which also wasn't true. She overcame all those issues by the end.

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I think it's my prostate.

Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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"I think it's my prostate."

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