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Post Diagnosis_ Learning to Live With Your Assassin
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Post Diagnosis: Learning to Live With Your Assassin

February 18, 2019February 25, 2019 - Leave a Comment

By Sarah Birdsong Mere weeks after Hurricane Irma raged her way through Atlanta in the month of September, 2017, I sat on the patient bed of my local gastroenterologist. The …

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The Lorikeet by Ann Rosenthal
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The Lorikeet

December 3, 2018December 1, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Ann Rosenthal The wild lorikeet sits on the branch outside the library. I read its colors like the gaudy cover of a book. It’s not a native bird. An …

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Straighten Up, Girl by MacKenzie
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Straighten Up, Girl

October 2, 2018October 23, 2018 - 3 Comments.

By MacKenzie Dexter When I was fourteen, my spine was pinned with twenty-two screws and pinched with two ten-inch rods to correct my scoliosis that had curved my body at …

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learning to cope with hearing loss by mary berset
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Learning to Cope with Hearing Loss

September 27, 2018 - Leave a Comment

I lived with my disability for five years before I found it existed. The comments started in high school. When I was in class and a friend would have to …

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equifinality by sarah boon
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Equifinality

August 22, 2018August 22, 2018 - Leave a Comment

By Sarah Boon I have a three-inch scar on my left forearm, winding thin and white across my yellow-brown skin. The dog who gave it to me, with his childlike …

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