My Bogeyman’s Name Is Cancer
Ignorance is bliss, but not when it comes to hereditary illness
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9 min readJul 2, 2019
The bogeyman: In Quebec, we call him Bonhomme Sept Heures; in France he’s Croque-Mitaine. In Spanish, it’s El Coco or Cucuy. Whatever you call him, he’s a mythical monster used around the world to scare children into good behavior.
