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Drug abuse

             I thought being a teenager was suppose to be fun I guess it is if your not two hundred and fifty pounds in the twelfth grade. Every year I say to myself i"m going to lose weight as you see it has yet to happen. I didn't know exactly who to blame myself or my mother it wouldn't be fair for me to blame my father because he could never understand how it feels to be a woman let alone a fat woman. I've hated me every since the second grade, one day in class we were having show and tell I brought my stuffed pig animal and before I could talk about Jason shouted from the back of the classroom look it's a smaller version of her. That's when I learned the meaning of humiliation.
             As the years went by the pounds came on, I would indulge in my favorite foods and make sweets my best friend. When ever there was a bad day at school or at home, which was usually everyday. I knew that there was comfort lurking in the cabinets of the kitchen just waiting to wrap their arms around me and make me feel like no one else could. I can honestly say I loved food more than I loved life it self. My mother and father would fight constantly about my weight he would say to her why don't you take her to join a health club or take her to see a dietitian do something to make her stop embarrassing me. My mothers reply was there is simply no help for people like that she's just plain lazy, she"ll end up eating herself to death maybe sooner than we think.
             Whenever my parents went out I wasn't invited they didn't want anyone to make the connection that I belonged to them. My childhood had past me by there was nothing that I actually wanted to remember. I was a lost cause and there wasn't much to do about it. Mother knew that she would never have any grandchildren that we would never be able to go shopping together I would never get married and least of all I would never be what she wanted me to be.


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