Nine years of layered shirts
“I told my brother the night before surgery. He'd had the same thing at twenty-two.”
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Placeholder body. Replace with a 1200-1800 word first-person account covering: noticing it in high school, the layered-shirt years, the first time he said the word out loud, choosing a surgeon, the week of the operation, the first time he wore a t-shirt without thinking about it. Specific, honest, no clinical distance.
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