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Wednesday 11 September 2024

How does your body feel right now, plainly?

Plainly. Not judged, not narrated. Just what it feels like. — asked by Jonah

BryonyMalvern, UK

It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.

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Bryn MNeath, UK

My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.

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Fenella I am glad somebody asked you. It should not be rare and it is.

GudrunAkureyri, IS

Somebody said I looked well and I could not work out where to put it, so I said thank you and changed the subject.

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BelCroydon, UK

Comfortable in a chair for a long meeting, which I would not have managed a year ago.

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TressaSt Austell, UK

Comfortable. Not a word I had used about myself in a long time.

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MarenBremen, DE

My hands. They can open jars again and I notice it every single time.

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FreyaReykjavík, IS

My back held for a whole shift, which is the only thing I ask of it.

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HuwWrexham, UK

I got dressed without a running commentary. First time in months.

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HarriSwansea, UK

It is doing something clever with insulin that I do not understand and I am grateful to it.

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SalmaManchester, UK

Nothing to report. It is fine. We are on speaking terms.

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IdaRotterdam, NL

Hard question. I liked my body before as well, actually, and I am tired of the assumption that I did not.

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Petua The dog does not accept excuses. Mine is the same.

HollisBath, UK

My hands. They can open jars again and I notice it every single time.

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Nell I am glad somebody asked you. It should not be rare and it is.

PerrineStrasbourg, FR

It swam. In February. In the sea. I did not think it had that in it.

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TiborBratislava, SK

Sore, tired, mine.

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Gwen DAberystwyth, UK

I am not sure. Ask me next week.

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