Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney is the author of two memoirs, Live Through This and I Am a Stranger Here Myself. Her essay ‘Suffer Me to Pass’ was selected for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in western Oregon.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 144
Abscessed Tooth
Debra Gwartney
‘Silence allows me to pretend that this happened to someone else a long time ago, and not to me.’