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Dear Ann Landers,
ou will probably think this letter is a fake, but I give you my word of honor it is real. I am 15 years old-a girl. In the last year or so, I have had a problem that has caused me a lot of embarrassment. Whenever I laugh hard I wet my pants. Lately it has been happening almost every other day, but so far only with girl friends. If it should happen when I am with a boy, I would just die. I asked my mother what to do about it, and she said it would go away and not to worry-that she had the same problem when she was my age. Can you give me some advice?

DEAR N.O.W.,
I took your problem to a top-notch urologist, Dr. Russell B. Roth of Erie, Pa. He called it "stress incontinence"-a fancy name for not being able to hold it. According to Roth, this condition is

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, whatever they needed I provided. What really hurt my son and I the most was the obituary - we were not mentioned at all. Our friends (mine and hers) were appalled. I was embarrassed and upset for not just me, but for my son-who loved her also. I never been so upset. Her x-husband put his wife and kids and their grandchildren in the obituary, who my girlfriend barely knew. They live an hour away from us. I know its silly to be mad over a little section of the newspaper, but it still hurts. Will time let this devastating loss of her and this article ever go away? I am so angry at this whole situation, its not like we can go and rewrite an obituary notice.

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