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How to Live in a Body You Altered to Save Your Life

My mother died of breast cancer and I got a preventive mastectomy, but now I feel like I amputated healthy parts of myself to fight a ghost.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Prophylactic medical interventions create complex relationships with the body as both threat and sanctuary.

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