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Description

"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 different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “"Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of our lives in reference to them."”

First Sentence

KER-POW! I was knocked into the present, the unmistakable now, by Joni Friedman's head as it collided with the right side of my jaw.

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  1. Lucy Grealy (Author)
 

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