(this is a reply to a piece that i just wrote that i'm not sharing. so there.)

i have a chicken pox scar on my forehead. a small circle inside a small circle.

and i scratch mosquito bites fiercely-- i end up with new scars every year from those. on my arms, my legs, hands, feet, everywhere.

on my right hand, there's a stylized letter s, where i had surgery when i was in college. that finger doesn't grip right any more, but it's much better than it was before the surgery, y'know?

on my left kneecap, there's what looks like a stretch mark, almost. it's from getting a shot there. apparently, if you spill steroids on skin, they make the skin react like that. who knew?

i have two scars, a dot and a line, on the top of my left breast. this time last year i touched that spot whenever i wasn't paying attention because i was worried about it. now, after the surgery, i want to show it to people. see? here's where i don't have cancer. it was just a cyst.