Citizens of that other place… That “other place,” the kingdom of the sick. It is a place with its own language and customs and landscape, a shadow-place of shadow-people.
Take care if you enter: the farther you step, the less substantial you become. There, your body blurs into something darker, slower, less stable.
To live with chronic illness is to reside at the borderland between these two kingdoms. It is a border defined by competing identities and wary coexistence.
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