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I used to love spring. After each colorless winter, I would open all of the windows in the house for those first gloriously warm and clear, sunny days. Everything would be coated in thick, yellow...
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I wish my doctors had warned me that some patients have trouble recovering emotionally from major abdominal surgery and its painful complications. Surgeons and gastroenterologists read through lists of...
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I’m sorry I’ve been absent. Pain has moved in where creativity used to live and is my constant companion–unwelcome, night and day. This is not how I imagined the summer would start. I imagined pool...
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