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4/20/2016 -- Holy Crap! I'm only through the first three essays, and I cannot believe how brave Broder is--Is there no way in which this woman will allow her self to be vulnerable?


4/22/2016 Okay, "Help Me Not Be a Human Being" initially hit me as self-indulgent, but now at the end, I find myself wanting to go back and read it again.

4/20/2016 -- Holy Crap! I'm only through the first three essays, and I cannot believe how brave Broder is--Is there no way in which this woman will allow her self to be vulnerable?


4/22/2016 Okay, "Help Me Not Be a Human Being" initially hit me as self-indulgent, but now at the end, I find myself wanting to go back and read it again.

Holy Crap! I'm only through the first three essays, and I cannot believe how brave Broder is--Is there no way in which this woman will allow her self to be vulnerable?


Okay, "Help Me Not Be a Human Being" initially hit me as self-indulgent, but now at the end, I find myself wanting to go back and read it again.

Holy Crap! I'm only through the first three essays, and I cannot believe how brave Broder is--Is there no way in which this woman will allow her self to be vulnerable?

"I am the eater who still longs, sometimes, for the full binge. There were moments in my life when I was mid-binge that felt like some beautiful return to self. I would be so caught up in the flow of the action, the pure pleasure of no restrictions and uncontainability, that I felt as though I had entered a silence that existed before words. But the words always returned."