The Lump

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I first discovered The Lump when I was about 18 years old. It was in my left breast, over my heart. I’d recently been through a tumultuous adolescence, and so, still shaken, I was convinced I had cancer. I knew I was technically too young to have breast cancer, but the trauma of my teen years convinced me that I was one of the unlucky ones. I went to the doctor. She had trouble detecting it with her hand and said it was likely just fibrous breast tissue, which is normal. Unconvinced, I located it with my fingers and guided her fingers to it. It was her turn to be unconvinced. She said it felt fine, so of course I moved on to other anxieties. From that point on, every time I was stressed, I’d feel a pinching pain over my heart in my left breast, which I attributed to paranoia.

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