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Ali Walensky
Bonding: Intimacy During — and After — My Cancer
We live with our bodies all our lives, and only we know what certain sensations feel like. No one knows our own bodies better than we do. Here’s what I learned about mine as I battled a serious illness.
Jewish Women. Breast Cancer.
The articles in this special section:
That Was Not My Plan!
Elizabeth S. Bennett
New job, new city, new baby, new role as a rabbi’s wife. But the diagnosis outdid the rest.
Bonding: Intimacy During — and After — My Cancer
Ali Walensky
She chose "kink" sex, for pain she herself could control.
Scenes From a Mastectomy
Alicia Ostriker
Looking back at the surgery decades later, the noted poet confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.
