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Risk Factors

I read to my spouse from Anne Boyer’s breast cancer memoir The Undying, on pg 29: “The breast surgeon said the greatest risk factor for breast cancer was having breasts.” Then the surgeon — a woman, mind you — prohibits Anne from hearing her own diagnosis from her and other preliminary findings unless accompanied by…

“Pre-Book Your Death Now”

Imagine letting life unfold, to playing at life until bedtime closed your eyes — but only after a satisfyingly long story from an unhurried parent. Perhaps you’re lucky enough to have experienced a Slow childhood. A Chris Ware drawing (as I remember it) a few years back showed a mother’s bent-over face lit in the…


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