Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth

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Sarah Manguso: the disease that stole my youth
When poet Sarah Manguso’s immune system attacked her nervous system, she was forced to endure years of harrowing treatment. In this poignant extract from her memoir, The Two Kinds of Decay, she describes what happened when her blood became a toxic soup I sang in a choir and took good care of my throat and when I caught a head cold in February 1995, during my junior year of college, I took tea …
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