This is what I would call courage: Seeing a woman who obviously has breast cancer wear a dress that shows her mastectomy scar. Her name is Charlotte Matthews and she is a poet. Her latest collection is called Green Stars. I saw her at a poetry reading at Malaprops last week and her publisher said that she has continued to write through the cancer and is quite ill.
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That is remarkable. Had she had reconstructive surgery? Did she speak of her experience at all? I'm curious, because I am going through the same thing right now, and can't imagine being brave enough to show my scar to the general public.
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