No One Wanted To Touch The Golf-Ball-Sized Lump In Her Foot. Would You?

This story about dealing with Crohn’s disease, written by Carolyn Burns, is moving and darkly funny. A little bit of the comedy borders on insensitive, but give it till the end because Ms. Burns wraps up this monologue quite beautifully.

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Nov 3, 2014

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