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Ashlie D. Stevens

Reclaiming rice cakes and finding joy

I remember the taste of my first diet: milk chocolate and metal. 

That would've been the year or so after my body catapulted itself into puberty and I grew increasingly mortified by the ways in which it was changing. I made the decision in the locker room at the local skating rink as I gently ran my fingers along the elastic waistband of my glossy, putty-colored tights. 

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