Things That Don't Suck

Things That Don't Suck

Chemo And Why I Still Have Eyebrows

You don’t have to believe in miracles to believe it. You only have to believe in love.

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Andrea Gibson
Oct 05, 2021
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Andrea Gibson poem in a cream text box with a black background: “I’m not crying because of sadness. I’m crying because of love.”

Two months into chemotherapy and nearly all of my body hair has vanished. The wart on the back of my head that has been terrifying hairdressers for years no longer has anywhere to hide. My proudly feminist leg hair has marched to the floor. I’ve inhaled my nose hairs like dust. My eyelashes have fallen like stars. Sometime in the last week I got my firs…

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