K E Garland is an award-winning creative nonfiction writer and blogger based in Florida. She uses personal essays and memoir to de-marginalize women’s experiences with an intent to highlight and humanize contemporary issues. She has a husband and two adult daughters and is the author of In Search of a Salve: Memoir of a Sex Addict.

My mother was born with one kidney when most of us are born with two. This sole organ singlehandedly cleansed her system, until it, too, shut down—deciding that providing full

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