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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 bones. She tapped…

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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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