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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…
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of…
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Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on her pelvic…
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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…
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Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go.…
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will, from self-control.
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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the…
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Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat…
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach were razor-sharp.…
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity…
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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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I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going…
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things. I did it (the O-Z-Z-Y tattoo across his knuckles) when I was 14.…
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But a man's character is his fate... and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks…
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Our culture has few taboos that can't be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first…
— Ross Douthat
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From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the…
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The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours…
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