Author: Sally
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Why Would I Look that Gift Horse in the Mouth?
I was ten months old when I was diagnosed. After my second round in traction for femur fractures, the doctor advised my parents to take me home but try not to get too attached. A person with brittle bones disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, OI, can look like every other person or they can present as extremely…
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Naked Corpses and the Other Side
I was in grade school when President Kennedy was assassinated. Although, I was a little kid and didn’t actually know the President, I consider him my first dead person. Everyone around me seemed affected by this death and the coverage on our snowy black and white television went on for a long time. I was…
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Time
What is time anyway? It drags on when you wait and flies by when you’re late. It moves forward, backward, stays the same. Living in the moment, impossible, a moment can’t be measured.