Novalis says, “In every language, what is said is never what is spoken.

When diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2009, Lisa Ray began a blog — a scrapbook — as a form of expression. She shared intimate moments, ones that some of us would find difficult to relate to, but wanted to understand.

From ‘coming out’ at the Toronto International Film Festival to her ‘chemo cut’, it was through her album of experiences that we got a glimpse of what it meant to face a disease that is believed to be incurable.

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