Category: thoughts
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moving right along (4)
I told everyone, of course. Mostly it was fine. I just… wasn’t quite fully tethered to earth, to my body. My sister arrived later in the evening and we went on a short walk and talked by the lake. Her eyes filled with tears and her face crumpled in this very specific way of hers,…
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a lot (5)
I go home, I do whatever it is I do with myself. I honestly don’t remember if I told my parents that night, Monday, or if it was a little later. It was probably Monday, I’m not great at just holding secrets like that from anybody important, really, but especially my parents. They took it…
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sigh (6)
A friend went with me to the first “real” appointment. I brought my cancer binder but they had a cancer binder already made for me in there. It had a picture of a woman looking into the distance. My friend had her notebook. Everyone was ready to take notes. The doctor opened the binder they…