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But My Body Was Telling Its Story. I Have Read A Lot Of Stuff About Cancer. I Needed This Book. I Wish I'd Had This Book When I Had Cancer. I Wanted Someone To Be Talking To Me About "fart Floors." I Wanted Somebody Telling Me What It Was Like To Have A Colostomy Bag. I Felt So Alone. And If You're A Person Who's Been Traumatized By Past Abuse, It's So Potentially Re-traumatizing. You Slip Right Into "oh My God, This Is The Only Person This Has Happened To Before" Mentality: "i'm Especially Bad And I Have Especially Bad Cancer..."

Well, The Tyranny Of Masculinity And The Tyranny Of Patriarchy I Think Has Been Much More Deadly To Men Than It Has To Women. It Hasn’t Killed Our Hearts. It’s Killed Men’s Hearts. It’s Silenced Them, It’s Cut Them Off.

What I'm Really Interested In Is Freedom.

People Are Sad. People Are Broke. People Are Worried About Money, People Are Worried That They're Not Enough And Not Amounting To Anything And They Don't Feel Good About Themselves. People Have Rough Times, And Everybody's Pretending It's Not True, And We Need To Break That Veneer.

When I Was Younger I Felt Very Disempowered, Very Disappeared. I Felt Worthless, Like I Had No Right To Exist. I Think A Good Part Of My Life Was Spent Recovering From That. Pulling Myself Out Of That.