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The doctor comes after they leave.
The girl is sitting on a bench outside, where I can see her but she cannot hear me.
He pulls out a picture, and shows it to me.
A faceless girl.
I am certain my face portrays how horrified I am.
She is all bones.
Too thin.
Veins popping through skin kind of thin.
Yes, I suppose that it is possible to be too thin.
The photo is slightly blurry, but it is in focus enough for me to see how each and every bone is melded into the skin, and the way one would think that they could see each and every organ working within.
I turn to him.
I ask him who the girl is.
Why she does not have help?
Blackness dulls my vision upon his response, and I am sprawled across the floor in what I am certain is not a very graceful fashion.
‘‘Y O U.’’