Jillian Welsh

And I just, oh, it breaks my heart, but I remember him looking so hurt and so confused. I... I wish that I didn't leave. Like, I wish that I had stayed, but... She didn't.

And I just, oh, it breaks my heart, but I remember him looking so hurt and so confused. I... I wish that I didn't leave. Like, I wish that I had stayed, but... She didn't.

Like, then it really hits me that I have stolen this man's sheet. How do you come back from that? How are you not the weird girl who took his bedsheets?

Like, then it really hits me that I have stolen this man's sheet. How do you come back from that? How are you not the weird girl who took his bedsheets?

So then I'm so inside myself, and I hear this voice being like, ma'am, excuse me, ma'am. And I look up, and in New York, they have this station outside of subway entrances with this folding table, and the NYPD stands behind, and it's a random bag search. No! No!

So then I'm so inside myself, and I hear this voice being like, ma'am, excuse me, ma'am. And I look up, and in New York, they have this station outside of subway entrances with this folding table, and the NYPD stands behind, and it's a random bag search. No! No!

I pretend I don't hear them, and I try to, like, exit the subway station. I go, like, a brisk, like, run-walk. Nothing looks more suspicious than trying to avoid a random bag search. I'm short. I'm short. Yep.

I pretend I don't hear them, and I try to, like, exit the subway station. I go, like, a brisk, like, run-walk. Nothing looks more suspicious than trying to avoid a random bag search. I'm short. I'm short. Yep.

I remember him, like—and the subway has such distinct lighting. Like, I just remember him holding up. these sheets, my menstrual sheets of shame, my menstrual sheets of doom. I realized that they didn't look like menstrual sheets of doom, they looked like murder sheets of doom. He asked me to explain it and I just start crying. I can barely get the words out.

I remember him, like—and the subway has such distinct lighting. Like, I just remember him holding up. these sheets, my menstrual sheets of shame, my menstrual sheets of doom. I realized that they didn't look like menstrual sheets of doom, they looked like murder sheets of doom. He asked me to explain it and I just start crying. I can barely get the words out.

I'm just like trying to explain to him like it's my period on those sheets and I stole the sheets from the guy that I was with and I know that that's wrong. Like I know that the actual theft of the sheets is wrong and I promised the officer that I would return them but I just needed to wash them first.

I'm just like trying to explain to him like it's my period on those sheets and I stole the sheets from the guy that I was with and I know that that's wrong. Like I know that the actual theft of the sheets is wrong and I promised the officer that I would return them but I just needed to wash them first.

He comes back, and he gives me an ultimatum. So we can go down to the precinct, and they can file a report, and they've got to keep the sheets just in case it's evidence, you know, and they're going to ask me a bunch of questions and follow up, or... I can take him back to the apartment, the apartment that I just came from, and have my partner corroborate my story. And I had to think about it.

He comes back, and he gives me an ultimatum. So we can go down to the precinct, and they can file a report, and they've got to keep the sheets just in case it's evidence, you know, and they're going to ask me a bunch of questions and follow up, or... I can take him back to the apartment, the apartment that I just came from, and have my partner corroborate my story. And I had to think about it.

I honestly gave it a really solid good think. There was a huge part of me that would rather go to the police station than have to go back and show Jeffrey, not only show him these sheets, but also bring the police there. But, you know, my common sense caught up with me of, like, this looks like I've done something very wrong.

I honestly gave it a really solid good think. There was a huge part of me that would rather go to the police station than have to go back and show Jeffrey, not only show him these sheets, but also bring the police there. But, you know, my common sense caught up with me of, like, this looks like I've done something very wrong.

And... I just remember being fascinated because without hesitating and almost like in this like stronger voice, he just says menstrual fluid, which is like, you know, I would call my period anything other than what it actually was. So for him to like look a police officer right in the eyes and just say very confidently menstrual fluid, it was just, it sounded so scientific and very grown up. Yeah.

And... I just remember being fascinated because without hesitating and almost like in this like stronger voice, he just says menstrual fluid, which is like, you know, I would call my period anything other than what it actually was. So for him to like look a police officer right in the eyes and just say very confidently menstrual fluid, it was just, it sounded so scientific and very grown up. Yeah.

And then I'm alone with Jeffrey. I'm trying to apologize to him, namely for stealing his sheets, but also just for everything, for bringing the police back to his house.

And then I'm alone with Jeffrey. I'm trying to apologize to him, namely for stealing his sheets, but also just for everything, for bringing the police back to his house.