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Let me summarize how life has become even more difficult in the past 24 hours. First of all, Supermum lost her job yesterday. Just like that, my parents are both unemployed and we are uninsured come May. How can hard-working, honest, creative, energetic and thoughtful people be dismissed? What kind of mother-fucking, conservative, gun-toting jerks dismiss my mom, the most tolerant, easy-going person I know? I can’t wrap my mind around it, so I’ll leave it at that for now.
Secondly, I really like my nutritionist, but even I cannot fully appreciate one’s expertise when one tells me that I cannot consume starches of any sort for a month. After that month of letting my stomach and other organs heal, I can try and see how much starch I can tolerate.
This is all too intense to dwell on right now, so I’m signing off. I usually wouldn’t say something like this: but keep us in your thoughts.

Doctor Doctor

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Design This Year’s Change Your Pace 5k Logo

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Defining Plus-Size

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Dear Michelle, It’s Me Again!

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Day Two Of NEDA Week: I Had No Idea!

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Day 3 NEDA Week: Count Your Blah Blahssings Baby!!

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Dads And Daughters: In Preparation For Father’s Day

I was on the phone with a friend last week and we were talking about my blog. She asked if I was going to write a blog post for Fat Her’s Day. I had no idea what she was talking about. She said, “Oh you know Deah, how you play with words all the time? …

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