Gaining
The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
Chapter One
CONNECTING THE DOTS
When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for
it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it ... and then the warmth
and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied ... and it is all one.
-M. F. K. Fisher
MY FRIEND CAROL CALLING FROM SANTA FE, sounded elated as she told me her
news: after thirty years, she'd finally located our high school classmate Candy
Lunt. The last time either of us had seen Candy was at graduation, when she
weighed less than 80 pounds. Shortly thereafter, her family
left Greenwich. The possible implications of her continuing absence from our
alumni directory had haunted both Caroland me.
"You should be a bounty hunter!" I said. "Where is she?"
"I spotted her name on the masthead of Forbes
"No!"
I called her. Aimee, she still talks in that half whisper from the back of
her throat, low and deep - you remember?
Barely. What I remembered more, at least at the en ... read full excerpt from: Gaining: The Truth about Life After Eating Disorders ebook
