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I am a gluttonous, gorging failure. A waste. My body isn’t used to high-sugar carbs laced with witchcraft. It can barely cope with soup and crackers.

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Laurie Halse Anderson
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: October 23
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Laurie Beth Halse
Failure
Carbs
High
Crackers
Used
Witchcraft
Body
Cope
Barely
Soup
Sugar
Gluttonous
Waste
Laced

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