![]() ![]() She's got the potential to save herself if she can focus her rage, control, and talent on someone or something else (and not on self-destruction).Īround Christmas, she’s home for the holidays and things are pretty bad. She’s a big pain in the ass to the adults around her, but she’s so gentle with younger kids. She gradually comes out of this obsession, at least to the point of being able to connect with and mentor some of the other girls on her ward. When she talks about her anorexia it’s not always the “thin is beautiful” kind of stuff that you often hear, but more “control is beautiful” - here is this one thing I can do phenomenally well, and so I do it, because everything else is falling apart I do it even if this thing that I do will eventually kill me. Marty has such strength and she’s fighting against all of the pain inside of her. There’s lots here about anorexia and what that’s like, but it’s also character driven. Still, he’s dad, and Marty wants so much (though she’d never, never admit it to anyone) for him to be part of her life and actually care about her. Her dad is so far removed and so distant and so disconnected that he’s like a bad dream. Her mother is a recovering alcoholic when Marty gets her own lockup therapy. What starts it? Everything, nothing, feeling like things are spiraling out of control, having her then boyfriend tell her she’s a fat slut when he finds out she’s not a virgin. She’s been sent to an institution to deal with that, because she’s dangerously underweight. ![]()
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