Nancy Borowick

The Hug Cancer has a way of simplifying life down to the most essential, the most basic, the most honest. Mom felt that without her hair, without one of her breasts, her disease had left her feeling like neither a man or a woman. She didn’t see herself in the mirror and it was a mix of terrifying and funny. She had been stripped of so much of her identity and was forced to focus entirely on the things that did bring her joy, like her family.