Diseases My Male Coworkers Diagnosed Me With On The One Day I Didn’t Wear Make Up

It was a dark day, under my eyes.

The Hairpin
The Hairpin
1 min readJul 31, 2017

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  • cancer of any variety
  • the flu
  • a flu
  • ebola
  • crippling and debilitating exhaustion
  • a case of the ‘natural female face’-s
  • eyelash balding
  • a loss of the will to live
  • poison ivy
  • poison oak
  • poison acne
  • anemia
  • paranoia from a ghost sighting
  • pink eye
  • vintage polio
  • very understandable depression
  • very understandable self-loathing
  • an STD from a dirty subway seat or a blood infusion but DEFINITELY NOT sexual intercourse
  • early-onset death

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