February 1989 Teen Life: Swimming, Braces & How To Tell If Someone Likes You

XXXOOO, says the February 1989 spine line, and the issue is full of Valentine's spirit...but first we need to talk about Christina's article on unhoused teens in New York. THEN we can get to her 12 DEFINITIVE ways to tell if a guy loves you, as a treat. (What He Said flips the question by asking a panel of dudes how they can tell when a girl likes THEM.) There's also another short story by the great Elizabeth Mosier, technological innovations in braces and pregnancy tests, a trip to Chicago, a first-person account of OCD, and much much more. Let this episode give you a great big O (...the hug kind) from all of us!

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TOPICS

🎧 It Is February 1989

🎧 Spine Line

🎧 Feature: Street Kids

🎧 Feature: Twelve Absolutely Definitive Ways To Tell If He Loves You

🎧 Fiction: Breaking Records

🎧 Body Talk

🎧 On The Road: Chicago

🎧 It Happened To Me: OCD

🎧 Help

🎧 What He Said: How Can You Tell If A Girl Likes You?

🎧 Stuff You Wrote

🎧 Goodbye For Now

🎧 Donuts + The Missing News

NOTES

⚠️ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

🏠 Outreach House in Queens

☎️ The Covenant House Nineline

💪 "The relationship between testosterone levels and cognitive ability patterns" at PubMed.gov

🧬 "Men's Test Scores Linked To Hormone" at NYTimes.com

🤰 "The First Home Pregnancy Tests Were Really Something" at Yahoo.com

🏫 Lisa Priborsky at Classmates.com

📖 Alissa Heyman bio at Storyscape Literary Journal

👩‍⚕️ Dr. Gina DeGiovanni on Vitals.com

🌤 "What's The Difference Between 'Mostly Sunny' And 'Partly Cloudy'?" on MentalFloss.com

✒️ Laura Arcazki-Pacter bio at the Cottey College Viewpoint

🍒 Warrant's "Cherry Pie" video on YouTube

🐝 Yellowjackets on Showtime