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When I was thin, I had no notion of what being fat is like. When I worked in a department store, I had sold clothes to women of most sizes, so I should have known but perhaps you have to experience the state from the inside, to understand what fat is like.

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Hilary Mantel
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 6
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