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Melanie Brown on choosing to live with one breast after a mastectomy
Melanie Brown refuses to hide her mastectomy. She asks why society, and bra makers, still struggle to accept or cater for women who have one healthy breast and don’t want reconstruction or to wear a prosthetic. Melanie doesn’t want to pretend she hasn’t had a mastectomy and wonders why, when so many millions of women go through this, it is something she is expected to disguise.
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