“A Few Words About Fake Breasts” written by Nell Boeschenstein, is a personal essay about a memorable event of her struggle with undergoing a double mastectomy. In this essay, Boeschenstein discusses in personal detail her thought process of undergoing such a procedure, within her writing it’s emotional and deep yet still shallow. Boeschenstein makes such an effort to never forget a part of her that will never be the same again, in her essay she never speaks of her having cancer only her sister, yet she proceeds to undergo the surgery just for precautionary measures
Remember how this feels. Remember how this feels.
Boeschenstein writes this essay in such a way that she never wanted to write it, about how she feels and her emotions and being able to do what she did. Later in the essay, she writes,
Scan the body for memories. Try to remember how it felt.
She ends the essay with writing about feelings of how she herself cannot physically feel but the reader is able to tell that she can emotionally.