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“I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.”
― Carol Lee, To Die For

“I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.”
― Nancy Tucker, The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope