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From: sommers@topaz.ARPA (Liz Sommers)
Newsgroups: net.women.only
Subject: bodies
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Date: Sun, 13-Jan-85 14:52:26 EST
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(Ignore this line at your own risk).

Has anybody reading this list gone through a lot of surgery lately?  Right
now I am recovering from a bilateral masectomy (with reconstruction).  I 
had a hysterectomy 5 months ago.  I am beginning to have real problems 
relating to my body as a "woman's body" now.  I am getting tired of hearing
how "you will look better than ever".... I really don't care how I look.

How can a woman relate to her body when all the important parts seem to be 
gone?  I always thought this was the sort of thing that might happen to my
grandmother, not me.  It is making me feel old and scared.

liz
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