My Friends Would Rather Have Their Guts Cut Open Than Be Like Me
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9 min readMay 11, 2016
By Meg Elison
Living a life like mine is so intolerable, some undergo serious surgery.
The first time it happened, it was my mother. What perfect betrayal, like burning down the house where I was born. She grew tired in secret of the long, curved line of her belly, pendant in…