How to Accidentally Break Up a Family

Abbey Wade
Black Bear
Published in
14 min readDec 13, 2023

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1983 | personal archives

I never knew you could eat just one Oreo. I thought that once you opened the pack, you had to commit to the whole thing. I didn’t know yet about throwing up; she taught me about that at Dan’l Boone Inn when I was in the 10th grade. But my first lesson in food was to secretly observe the in-house behavior surrounding milk’s favorite cookie.

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Abbey Wade
Black Bear

Survivor of indoctrinated eating disorders, narcissist DNA & familial sexual abuse. I love mushrooms and hate mayonnaise.