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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…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as…
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Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the…
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