Tag: personal-essay
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The Moment I Knew: Love Sprung Under a Spooky Bridge by the Canal de l’Ourcq
The Night That Began It All In a city waking with stories and the scent of popcorn, I first crossed paths with him at a circus festival in Bathurst back in 2010. I was finishing high school, eyes bright with the thrill of daring acts and the promise of something more than ordinary. The festival…
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I Let Go of My Gym Obsession After a Decade
I spent over a decade chasing numbers: the scale, the kilos on the bar, the minutes shaved off my training times. I wore gym shoes like armor, a constant reminder that if I wasn’t improving, I was failing. I’m a journalist by trade and a weekend gym devotee by habit, and for years the two…
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My Mastectomy Recovery: How My Mother Helped Me Heal
Facing the Mirror, Facing the Truth I write this as a daily confession to a life altered by mastectomy, a road I didn’t choose but am learning to walk. Weeks ago, I recoiled from the space where my right breast used to be, a hollow in the memory of my own body. I study the…
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My Late Mother’s Light: Through My Mastectomy
Introduction: A Quiet Presence When I faced a mastectomy, the space where my right breast once lived felt like a wound that wouldn’t quite heal. Yet in the days that followed, I discovered that healing isn’t only physical; it is carried in the quiet acts of love we’ve carried with us for years. My mother’s…
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Brain Aneurysm: A Family’s Courage Through Crisis
Two Days of Waiting We thought my dad’s brain surgery had worked. The monitors in the ICU slept in a steady rhythm, and for a moment the room felt like a false calm—the kind of quiet that only follows a storm you believe has passed. Two days after the operation, the world shattered that illusion.…