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Deborah Y. Abramson lives in Boston, Massachusetts, and is enrolled in the MFA program in creative nonfiction at Goucher College. Her work has appeared in the Boston Phoenix and Metropolis.
I remember clearly how it started. I was fifteen years old. It was the middle of winter, the house hazy and yellowish with dry furnace heat. I had eaten a Lean Cuisine lasagna dinner — a dish that had fewer than four hundred calories (good for me) and required no preparation (good for my mother) — and gone upstairs to my room to finish my homework.
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