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[Fiction] Eat Your Heart Out
By Mackenzie Kiera I’m awake when doctors cut out my heart. My heart had been growing steadily for nine (ten, really it’s ten) months, and the weight of it has been encumbering, to say the least. My heart and I are both fine and healthy. It’s a totally normal thing, Harvest time. The doctors and nurses tell me women get their hearts cut out all the time all over the world, every day, every minute. It’s normal. Perfectly normal.Normal is what I tell myself when I’m laid down on a table and they t