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Jamie Quatro Reads “Yogurt Days”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Importance of Skinnyness

In high school, when I developed anorexia and then bulimia, I blamed her. She put my sister and me on the swim team each summer because she loved to watch the flab on our legs melt off. Her great-grandmother said in front of everyone, Anna, your mother doesn't seem to be able to keep the fat off.

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