Deborah Y. Abramson | The Sun Magazine

Deborah Y. Abramson

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.

— From May 1999
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

For No Good Reason

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.

May 1999
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