Ducks, Newburyport

by Lucy Ellmann

I’m all wrong about that though, and the old guys are really just overgrown paper boys who could never find another job and never asked for promotion either,

the fact that having had cancer once doesn’t mean you’re immune to getting it again, far from it, the fact that I keep thinking I’ve got a new kind and I won’t live to see my kids grow up, the fact that luckily I’ve blanked out most of my cancer treatment though, “she passed away,”