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• From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's…
• Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
• Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
• She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…
• She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind. And the…
• Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go.…
• How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
• Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the…
• Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat…
• She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.…
• She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…
• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…

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