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“She called out her brother’s name during her orgasm.”

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If you ever feel like there is nothing left for you; I promise you that you’re wrong, things will get better, you just have to give life the time to turn around.

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I loved it so much that I started doing it everywhere I went (which was limited, because cancer).

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Enough is when you just tell me I look pale like the sky before dawn, like whitewash walls of your childhood bedroom, and you still call me darling, honey, baby, beautiful. My name.

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About a year ago, I Twitter-met Tyler, a man who works as an escort.

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“Yeah, but if I have to die with anybody, I’d rather it be with you guys,” I replied.

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First I woke up at 7 in the morning to beat the traffic and get to the day hospital on time. I needed blood drawn, I had a clinic with the oncologist and then there’s the whole 7-hour infusion thing, so it was going to be a long day.

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It’s been three days since chemotherapy, and my nurse called this morning to ask how I was feeling. I told her I was feeling alright, and she congratulated me, saying that today and tomorrow would probably be my worst days and that I’d be on the upswing soon.