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Joan Bauer's Essay 'A Letter From The Fringe'

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It’s been three days, no food, no sugar, no sweets. You crave, and your mouth waters like a waterfall once your eyes connect with the delicious dinner your mother has prepared for you. Your stomach rumbles like a drum as it begs for food, pleading your brain. You hold back and you push the plate away. Congratulations, you’re starving yourself all because some stupid kid had to come up to you and ask you when you were gonna’ lose some weight. Is that the question you are answering? Or should the real question be is starving yourself worth your health and potentially your life? In the short story, A Letter from the Fringe, by Joan Bauer, the main character Dana and her friend Sally are hanging out together eating cookies for Sally birthday. Doug

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