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What I discovered, but
I knew this anyway,

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was that everybody has some kind
of thing to bear in their lives.

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You really cannot tell by
looking at people what they are

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about.

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Sometimes you can.

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But then you're wrong so often.

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And I discovered
with breast cancer,

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I joined a huge tribe,
one of the many tribes

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to which I belong.

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Margaret Walker
had breast cancer.

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This is called "1994."

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I was leaving my 58th
year when a thumb of ice

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stamped itself
hard near my heart.

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You have your own story.

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You know about the fear, the
tears, the scar of disbelief.

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You know that the saddest lies
are the ones we tell ourselves.

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You know how dangerous it
is to be born with breasts.

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You know how dangerous
it is to wear dark skin.

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I was leaving my
58th year when I

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woke into the winter of
a cold and mortal body.

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Thin icicles hanging off
the one, mad nipple weeping.

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Have we not been good children?

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Did we not inherit the Earth?

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But you must know all about this
from your own shivering life.

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