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An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

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Rachel Cusk
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Novelist
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Disorder
Epidemic
Love
Wherever
Disgust
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