A Breast Cancer Notebook: My Story in Paper and Glue

 

Yes, that's my hair

This is the cover of the notebook I created during my nine-month treatment for cancer. My hair began falling out in the marble bathroom at the Neue Galerie on Fifth Avenue in New York—not in giant, scary fistfuls, but about 10 wispy strands at a time. I knew then it was time to get my head shaved; it had been two and half weeks since I began chemotherapy. 

 

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