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Sep 28, 2021

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Accepting Body Acceptance

It took doctors’ denials, and decades of dieting to finally stop dieting

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In time travel movies, there are always scenes in which the time traveler walks around mouth agape, marveling at the changes in technology, fashion, and social attitudes when they leap into the future.

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Teacher, runner, former journalist; few N.E. Press Assoc. Awards, few Boston Globe essays, few anthologies, few comedy sites, few poems, so many grocery lists.

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