This reflection ends with a conversation around childhood complications when parents have not healed from their own childhoods. However, the full discussion is filled with related randomness: about the menstrual cycle (starting as a young girl), about (perceived) rights of passages into womanhood, about adult children of alcoholic parents, about the weaponization of parental power, and about smiling and the politics of beauty. *MBTI Talking Points: Ni, INTJ, INFJ, Fe, and ESFJ