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"I could keep chasing thinness. Keep tying my life to it. Or I could let the quest go. Just let it go."
"As I neared the end of my journey, I was still looking for that 'big' moment of revelation, when I hoped to see unmistakable evidence of the Divine."
"I understood that not talking about the pain I was feeling would protect them. So we all learned to pretend."
"'I can’t explain it,' I told my husband. 'But it’s all-consuming. I go to bed thinking about her. I wake up thinking about her.'"
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"Almost three decades spent with someone is not easy to shake off in a little over a year — or maybe ever."
"Like so many who were raised in conservative Christianity, the sex education I received was light on 'education' and heavy on shame."
"Over the years, I’ve stressed the importance of kindness. Maybe she’s taken that lesson too far."
The ACLU called it “a concentration camp for throwaway teens.”
"My story is a testament to the trap that many of us find ourselves in."
"After failing for so long, I was tempted to call off the search."