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I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

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Mary Roach
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 20
Author
Journalist
Medical Writer
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Etna
New Hampshire
Began
Inside
Beautiful
Thing
Never
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Skeleton
Thinking
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