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I’m struggling to get through this one 😭 I want to DNF this so bad!

Meh!

I wanted more for Sugar. She let me down bad 😭

“There had been no love to scrape away at her, leaving only crumbled bits of flesh where there once was a whole person–she didn’t have to pretend that she didn’t need him when she knew she did. No, that was someone else’s life.”

“Gwen had been sent to the edge of madness, but she did not step off into it. She let it mold her and clear the fog she thought was love from her mind.”

“Because grief that comes from loss of child just took a piece of you away each time you met up with it. And if you found yourself among it too often for too long, you'd certainly die way before your time.” — grief personified so beautifully 🩶

Lots of twists and turns!

I finally found a page turner 🔥

😴

On the biases within fat phobia: “When a white person…is marginalized by fat phobia, they are also protected from the worst of it by a thick cushion on privilege.”

“She’s a regular woman, fuller than thin, with an eveydayness about her.” 🤏🏾

“My mother didn’t die because she was a woman who had breast cancer. Her cause of death was being a poor Black woman who had breast cancer.” Often times it is not simply the diagnosis that determines one’s fate, but it is WHO has been diagnosed. 😢

I need someone who can love me on Wednesday 🩶

Captivating. Reyna is a vivid story teller. 😍