Maude was skinny. She was, as her friend Gabriella said, “in need of a good pasture”. It’s not that she was a cow! Of course not; it’s just a metaphor. She was in need of being fattened up in a verdant meadow.
Maude was not worried. She said she was eating well and sleeping well. A lot of people would give a fortune to have her physique. As Maude said to her friend Gabriella, “Some people would die to be as skinny as me.”
And she did.
The picture at the top of this post reminded me of a kerfuffle a few years ago when some fashion mag photoshopped a model until her head was wider than her hips. It was weird, and the wrong people would look at that and think “Why can’t I look like that?” Well…
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Yes – it can be horrible – although I’ve never had any experience with anorexia and bulimia (both words I can’t spell)
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I think you got them right! I haven’t either, thank goodness, but I used to see a woman running on the bike path, who had to be anorexic. It was alarming.
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It’s amazing how you have turned a tragedy into a punch line. Whatever happened to the trend of beatific, buxom beauties?
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Polynesia (where I come from geographically speaking) regards plumpness as a thing of beauty (apparently). Personally I think some people over do it.
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Yep.
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what a punch at the end! brilliant !
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Thank you!
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Lead me to pasture.
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