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Paige Pizza

Dec 23, 2019

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How do I say goodbye to my boobs with grace?

Anticipatory grief, a prophylactic double mastectomy, and missing my mom

This is my mother’s journal entry following her mastectomy. She was 35 with stage 4 breast cancer.

February 28th, 1997 has come and gone. It was a lovely, sunny, blue day. Diane, Dee Dee, Jan, and Dave were with me to check in and wish me…

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