Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship.

This is what Susan Sontag writes in her bookIllness as Metaphor.

During our meetings, we stripped ourselves bare and shared secrets that will probably remain untold.

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This is a work about sisterhoodthe sisterhood that saved me and continues to save me.

A very personal addition, which enriches the work.

Veronica Yoko Plebaniis an Italian Paralympic athlete who contracted fulminant meningitis at the age of fifteen.

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Veronica Yoko Plebaniis an Italian Paralympic athlete who contracted fulminant meningitis at the age of fifteen.

Vittoria Santarelliis a fashion stylist and suffers from a neurodegenerative disease called Small Fiber Neuropathy.

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Clotilde is a biotechnology student and model who had bone tuberculosis and Pott’s disease resulting in chronic lifelong pain and nerve entrapment in her left leg.

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Clotilde is a biotechnology student and model who had bone tuberculosis and Pott’s disease resulting in chronic lifelong pain and nerve entrapment in her left leg.

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Gayaworks in the fashion industry and is a model, She was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was 11 and underwent ileostomy surgery at the age of 18.

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Gayaworks in the fashion industry and is a model, She was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was 11 and underwent ileostomy surgery at the age of 18.

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Vittoria Santarelliis a fashion stylist and suffers from a neurodegenerative disease called Small Fiber Neuropathy.

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Vittoria Santarelliis a fashion stylist and suffers from a neurodegenerative disease called Small Fiber Neuropathy.

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