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What Fear Has Taught Me

Destiny Pifer
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4 min readApr 21, 2024

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It was snowing the day I had to return to the hospital. Just two weeks prior I had a mammogram which is a necessity due to my mother having breast cancer many years before. When the phone rang just two days later I remember sitting in silence as the nurse informed me that there were abnormal findings in my left breast. It wasn’t enough that my breasts are extremely dense thus making them sensitive but now they were telling me that I needed to…

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Destiny Pifer
ILLUMINATION

Destiny Pifer is a published author who is currently a contributor for Pandemic Diaries. Her work has also appeared in various anthologies.