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i always want to tell everyone everything - by Karen Cheung

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A few weeks ago I sat down next to someone at a group dinner and immediately blurted out that I had just had a colposcopy and biopsy that day so I was kind of hurting all over.

A few weeks ago I sat down next to someone at a group dinner and immediately blurted out that I had just had a colposcopy and biopsy that day so I was kind of hurting all over. She said ‘What???’ and laughed really hard and I remembered most people don’t greet other people by telling them about mildly invasive medical procedures. Then I had to explain to this person, who is actually a writer I respect very much and whose work I had written my MA thesis on, that it was possible I would be grimacing all evening from the pain or getting up repeatedly to use the bathroom, and I didn’t want her…

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