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A tool box for living: Cancer reflections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2003

MARCY DEMPSEY
Affiliation:
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Extract

The surgeon has offered me a chair, tightly fitted in the corner of her office. She proceeds with what seems like a foreign language, and relays the news. Absorbing the minimum, I learn that I have breast cancer.

Type
ESSAYS/PERSONAL REFLECTIONS
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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