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  • LV
  • Olivia Macassey

My name, Liv, is the number fifty four in Roman numerals. Is fifty five, then, the sum of me plus my disease? It is a larger number, but the “i” has been taken out. To become something more than myself, and at the same time, something less: that is the essence of receiving a diagnosis. [End Page 26]

Olivia Macassey
Whangerei, New Zealand
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