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How to Write a Book About Depression and Eating Disorder
I wanted to write about sisterhood, and spiky sisterhood that i don't think often gets written about. To get to that, i had to absolutely go through the family story, which is full of sadness, disfunction. My father can now have no right of ropli because he's had to mention a frontalo to mention for over a decade. There are texts that my sister sent me that i utterly misread, thatifeel full of regret now. But they're in there. I actually write my own unreliability,. The questions over memory, the questions over how, and perhaps choosing to remember something and forget other things, they're built into that. And it
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