Elna felt she was thin, but proportionately thin. One day when she was 22, it all came into full focus. She and her family took a trip to an amusement park where there was a fun house with a hallway of mirrors. Elna continued to feel this way about herself for years.
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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