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A Hole in the Heart
I was sitting in a wing back chair at my aunt’s house, listening to a detailed story about how her Achilles’s tendon had dissolved over a matter of weeks. It was almost 10:30, and we were preparing...
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You Are Going to Die
A few weeks ago I awoke one morning with a small, tight knot in my back. It had lodged itself in the valley next to my scapula, a compact mass of taut tissue that had taken up residence overnight,...
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You Are Loved
Dear Abra, Exactly three years ago I wrote this love letter to you. I was just rounding the bend on the first trimester of my first – and, I’m confident now, only – pregnancy. Never sick a single...
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Seeking Peace
A few Sundays ago we hauled the ornaments from the top shelf of our closet to decorate the Christmas tree. I had awoken that morning, for no apparent reason, irritable and edgy, a phenomenon I’ve...
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Goodbye Illness, Hello Ease
I didn’t pick a “word of the year” at the start of 2013, but one picked me. Illness, of varieties both large and small, was a runaway train that barreled through my life, providing uncanny bookends...
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