April 1991 Teen Life: Sneezes, Horses & A Saggy Old Mom

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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TOPICS
🎧 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

NOTES
📆 The Wonder Years (2021) "Lads And Ladies And Us" at Fandom
💬 "Rough Draft" quote at QuoteFancy
🪧 "Rough Draft" banner on eBay
🐴 Wild Horse Outreach & Advocacy
🐎 "US Judge In Nevada Hands Wild Horse Advocates Rare Victory In Ruling On Mustang Management Plans" at the AP
👧🏻 Citizen's Committee for Children of New York
🤝 "NYANA To Close After Long Run Here" at Jewish Telegraphic Agency
☮️ PeaceAction
📚 Enid Harlow's new story collection Voices at Livingston Press
🤧 "How Fast Is A Sneeze Versus A Cough?" at Each Breath from the American Lung Association
👙 Title 9
⛴️ "A Tour Of Baltimore's Inner Harbor"
👕 "Best Vintage & Thrift Stores In Baltimore"
🤕 "Top 15 Misconceptions Of Self-Injury" at Cornell
🔨 Leonid Brezhnev at Alpha History
🤨 George Whipple