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Nikolai

I am the son of a Breast Cancer survivor.

posted 10/17/2008, comments (0)

Alone With My Dad

In the living room, my dad was sitting in the dark. He was wearing his shoes in the house (very exceptional behavior for him). Of his face, I could only see his open eyes through the gloom: they stared blankly into the open space of the room. His shoulders were hunched from elbows propped on his knees, and his hands were held out before him, like... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/17/2008, comments (0)

A Hospital Visit

The hospital by our house is immense. I live in a fairly rural area, and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center makes everything within 50 miles look like Legos. It's hidden by a small forest and so it looms and bends towards you when you finally break through to its network of parking lots. As daunting as it may seem to many, the medical center... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/15/2008, comments (3)

Interview: Gabriela Mejia Talks About Her Plans for a New Book, Cleavage: New Ways To Look

Nikolai Hamel: Briefly, what is your project and what inspired it? How did you choose the name? Gabriela Mejia: My project is to produce and curate a coffee table book called CLEAVAGE: New Ways to Look. It's a deliberately seductive art book, focused on edgy and provocative visual and textual representations of cleavage and... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/08/2008, comments (3)

Hair, Or Lack Thereof - What Happened After My Mom Shaved Her Head

I wasn't present for the actual event, but I do remember the before and after. I can't say my mom acted quickly. She really let it get to the final strand before taking the next step, but she finally shaved it all off. I'm remembering her hair of course, or lack thereof. I suppose it would have been something if my mom was a young hipster... Read more Chevron

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posted 10/03/2008, comments (0)

What Happened When My Mom Couldn't Go to the Circus

If I were to describe the event that shook me, that made me realize that, yes, my mom had breast cancer, and yes, she might die, it would be this. The circus came to town every year, and every year me, my mom, and my dad went to see it. I got cotton candy and popcorn and arched my neck to see the trapeze artists, and made fun of the... Read more Chevron

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