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August 19, 2020 Accepting, Embracing Others, Yearning for Home Leave a comment
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Yesterday, I had a shallow hole cut in the centre of my chest. It was for a very low-risk biopsy; by itself, this is no news worth sharing. However, a little over a month earlier, I was sitting in my dermatologist’s waiting room to check out what was probably an […]

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