"My neurosis is fixing myself. And i will say that for the first time in my life, for a good four months period this year, i went on sebaticle," she says. "I was living in the woods and allowing myself to do things i did when i was a little kid ... It just brought out, like, joy, and it t out playfulness."
From the time she was a little girl, Elna Baker had dreamed of being thin. And she did become thin. She lost close to 100 pounds in five months. For a while Elna thought she was living her dream life, until she realized that she had lost herself in the process.
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