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Chapter 119: Blair's Scare

Autor: Mary Anthony
last update Data de publicação: 2026-04-26 12:18:22

Blair called on a Monday morning in February and said the word cancer with the particular steadiness of someone who had already spent several days alone with the word and had practised saying it until it became something she could hand to another person without dropping.

"Thyroid," she said. "They caught it early. The surgeon is optimistic. But it needs to come out, and then there's treatment, and the recovery is longer than I'd like."

Chloe sat down. She was in her studio, surrounded by work,
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