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About four years ago, I was
diagnosed with breast cancer.

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This is the part where
I'm telling you about what

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I've been doing lately.

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And it was-- this awesome will
tell you just how tacky I am,

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I'm fairly chatty
woman, I don't mind.

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And I had-- I was
diagnosed it was discovered

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because my kids had been
bugging me about getting

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a mammogram for a long time.

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But then, I went to
a new internist--

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this will not surprise
anybody, anybody

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who knows me wants them fine,
he was awfully cute, you know?

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And he wanted me to have
a mammogram and he said,

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I won't be happy if you
don't have a mammogram.

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And to make him happy,
I had a mammogram.

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And in fact had early diagnosis
of cancer, the breast cancer.

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And so I wrote
some poems about I

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had a lumpectomy, and
radiation, and all of that.

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And I wrote some poems about it.

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This is called "Lumpectomy Eve."

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It is the evening before bed.

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All night, I dream of
lips that nurse and nurse

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and the lonely
nipple lost in loss,

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and the need to feed that
turns that last on itself,

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that will kill its body
for its hunger's sake.

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All night, I hear the
whispering, the soft "love

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calls you to this knife.

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For love, for love."

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All night, it is the one
breast comforting the other.

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