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My Story: I was born with Klippel-Feil Syndrome, and Life has Become a Huge...
This is the first in a regular series of stories written by women about their lives, challenges, struggles, and strengths. (Top photo credit/Ars Magna Studio) I feel the security guard’s eyes bearing...
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My Story: The Broken Heart Chronicles Part I — Open Heart Surgery at 21
I admire celebrities today making things such as mastectomies public. But at this time, I had concerns not only for my life, but the disfigurement I may have to live with the rest of my life. That if I...
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Interview: Previewing Natasha’s story, and why I fucking hate Cystic Fibrosis
Natasha and John in 2006 Hi. I’m John. I created Blast Magazine in 2006, and I launched the predecessor to this website with some of the amazingly strong women who write for Blast earlier this year....
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My Story: Breathless. Living with Cystic Fibrosis.
As you sit at your computer reading this, your lungs are inhaling and exhaling, and you aren’t giving this process a second thought—it just happens. My whole life I have been conscious of every breath...
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My Story: The Amazon’s Lament – I’m taller than 99.6 percent of American women
I was taller than my first grade teacher – in the first grade. (Media credit/ Samantha Withers Photography) I was taller than my first grade teacher – in the first grade. One of the boys in my class...
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My Story: Working it out to find a balance with PCOS
“I don’t know what to tell you. You’re doing everything right,” the physician’s assistant told me as she looked over her notes. “It’s just really frustrating,” I said. I could feel the dejection wash...
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My Story: Miss Glass. Osteogenesis Imperfecta didn’t stop me from playing...
The movie “Unbreakable” came out when I was 12. I watched it with a certain level of fascination. I knew what the villain’s disease was. I had heard of it many times in my life. This portrayal...
View ArticleMy Story: I never thought an abusive relationship could happen to me
“It can happen to anyone,” they say. Anyone but me you think to yourself in reply. “You don’t even know it’s happening until you’re in too deep.” I’m too strong for that to happen to me. Except it...
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My Story: I don’t know what race I am and that’s ok
I’m adopted. I’ve never thought of myself as unique or special, but for some reason everyone I meet is intrigued with my story. My Chinese birth mother’s letter, relinquishing her legal rights to me....
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My Story: “Broken Home”— I’m a Kids-of-Divorce Club Member
At my grandmas’s house, a few years before my parents divorcedI grew up with divorced parents. Boo hoo. That’s as synonymous with American culture as fast food and reality television. More than half of...
View ArticleMy Story: I’m afraid of death
It was Thanksgiving and I lay curled up on the bathroom floor. Like a child in a womb, trying to insulate myself from one menacing truth: Someday, I will be dead. Not “someday I will die.” Because it...
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My Story: I was sexually harassed and couldn’t heal until I forgave myself
From child abuse, domestic violence, and sexual harassment, to human sex trafficking and atrocities against civilians in war-torn countries, our world creates new victims daily. Broken bones and...
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My Story: Proud, black, female, athiest
Proud, Black, Female, Athiest. When you’re a little black girl growing up in the South, you have to believe in something, because very few people will believe in you. I believed in God. For the first...
View ArticleMy Story: OCD took over my life
Three years ago I looked like I had it all. At the time I was a senior in high school, a member of National Honors Society, a two sport captain, a director in my school’s film program. Tall, blond,...
View ArticleMy Story: The Broken Heart Chronicles Part 2 — Premarital Divorce
Part two of Ashley’s story. Nearly two years ago, I knew my fairy tale wedding and relationship with him wasn’t meant to be. It took me another six months to actually do something about it, and...
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Simon Says Be Happy: A Young Girl’s Struggle to Deal with a Death of a Friend
Five years ago, I travelled down a path that I refuse to ever return to. While it was a common journey, it was scarring enough that I built interior walls I don’t ever know if it can be taken down. I...
View ArticleCan a Transgender Woman Keep Your Business “Young?”
She can if you let her! Here’s how: (But I have to start at the beginning.) I am an attorney who is retired from my 25 year career at a firm of sports agents. In my job, I helped negotiate and write up...
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