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featherweight perfection

October 18, 2011
By hippiechick123 GOLD, Texas
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all who wander arent always aimless. where do you go to escape yourself? close your eyes and see me. <br /> all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be. <br /> i am in love with you &lt;3

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featherweight perfection
is a lie
we have girls who binge,
starving and purging
trying to fit society's expectations
so now i must write myself,
write myself a letter
Dear Stomach,
Please get smaller,
before my bones crumble
and my lungs cave in,
cause i don't want to
gain an ounce.

Love,


Me.

© Jessica T., North Hills, CA

The author's comments:
this is a piece i wrote in favor to girls who feel the need to have eating disorders to fit reality's exprctations
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