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- Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.
- I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking…
- Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the…
- This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from…
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