my scar is real.
i carry it with me every day.
it is about the length of a quarter. just below my lowest left rib. it always looked like a circular banana slice
i haven't looked at it in a long, long time.
i'm looking at it now.
it used to be more round, i swear to god. smooth and bumpy. born of trauma. not a birthmark.
it has always stayed the same size, even as i grew - so it used to seem huge, but seems small now.