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Eating disorders can be very seductive. Thoughts and emotions pin you into a corner psychologically, emotionally, and finally physically. I like how Bellows compares her disorder with an abusive partner. It’s all summed up in this sentiment, where she says that he’s all she had, despite him being the enemy. I loved how there were times Bellows’s point-of-view was intertwined with ED’s, and I felt all the frustration I felt as a reader for Bellows seemingly putting herself in that situation, even though ED also played a role in torturing her. Moreover, I liked how, towards the end of the book, we actually see what ED has become, just as Bellows starts to recover.
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