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Exploring recent parental loss, and living with a severe, life-limiting genetic mutation, diagnosed as a baby. Thyca, type 1 diabetes, lupus, severe primary immune defiency, widespread skin cancer. But I’m funny, I swear.

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Kelly Bergin

@ninelivesbykpb

Writer on disability with a fatal disease. This newsletter will be about the awkward shit I do, losing my dad April 24, 2024, my misadventures as a patient at the NIH. I’m a damn good writer. I can sell a funny line in the darkest of times.