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Nearly three decades after she detailed her first battle with anorexia in Solitaire, Aimee Liu presents a sequel. Liu believed she had conquered anorexia in her twenties. Then, in her forties, when her life once again began spiraling out of control, she stopped eating--the same forces that had caused her original eating disorder were still in play. Other women she knew with histories of anorexia and bulimia seemed to share many of her personality...
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Reviews the case of Molly Fancher, an eighteen-year-old in 1865 who became the subject of widespread medical and media attention when she was injured in a horsecar accident and reportedly lived, an invalid, without food for over ten years, suffering symptoms of chronic paralysis, trances, and seizures.
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