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The "You're Not Fat" Campaign
Panic
Mom and Dad pick me up from school. They look grim. They drive in the opposite direction of home.
"Where are we going?" I ask finally. Mom and Dad exchange looks.
Mom sighs.
"The hospital," she says at last. My stomach drops.
"No. No no no. No no no no no no NO," I mutter, my breath speeding up. My heart is pounding through my rib cage and it hurts it hurts it hurts so much and I can't see again no not again please not again I am so afraid and my hands are shaking and clammy and there is a buzzing in my ears and nothing is real.
"Laura. Laura!" someone shouts, but it is very very distant. I am drowning, drowning, drowning, and I cannot breathemovefeel anything.
"Laura?" The voice is hard to hear through the deafening buzz in my ears and the poundpoundpound of my heart and the fatfatfat in my brain stop it stop it stop it I want to DIE.
"Where are we going?" I ask finally. Mom and Dad exchange looks.
Mom sighs.
"The hospital," she says at last. My stomach drops.
"No. No no no. No no no no no no NO," I mutter, my breath speeding up. My heart is pounding through my rib cage and it hurts it hurts it hurts so much and I can't see again no not again please not again I am so afraid and my hands are shaking and clammy and there is a buzzing in my ears and nothing is real.
"Laura. Laura!" someone shouts, but it is very very distant. I am drowning, drowning, drowning, and I cannot breathemovefeel anything.
"Laura?" The voice is hard to hear through the deafening buzz in my ears and the poundpoundpound of my heart and the fatfatfat in my brain stop it stop it stop it I want to DIE.
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