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? NORMAL OR WHAT?

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