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KEELEY’S APRIL 30-DAY CHALLENGE

Looking for Somebody to Answer This Prompt

Any body but mine.

Karen Schwartz
3 min readApr 21, 2023

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Day Twenty-One prompt: What is your favourite body part?

With a figure no longer recognizable, I believe a more suitable topic would be why I would want to “part with my body.” There are lots of reasons. I can’t name only one. There are the saggy arms and the droopy breasts, and what’s going on with those chin hairs?

I no longer colour my hair, so these grays are coming in quickly. The smell of the peroxide fumes was sickening, and talk about the cost and potential risk of dripping dye onto my countertops. I’m sure by now you’ve got the picture.

Do we need to talk about my belly? While I can’t complain when it doubles as a book stand if I lie in bed to read, still, it often gets in the way. My bad knees prevent me from tying my shoes, and my tummy makes it difficult to find the laces. Unless I’m sitting down, but who wants to bother finding a chair when we’re running late and on the run?

Now, I shouldn’t complain about my rear because nowadays, there’s more to love. There’s never a need for a cushion or padding to sit on, and there’s more of it to spank. I’m just saying. What was I thinking in my skinny days when I used to take pride in my butt, and so did…

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Karen Schwartz
Karen Schwartz

Written by Karen Schwartz

Children's picture book author, fiction writer, personal essayist, kindness specialist, and lover of chocolate.

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