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Oh. No Wonder I'd Been Sick. I Hadn't Eaten Anything Since Then. I'm A Girl Who Likes Her Meals, So It Hadn't Been A Weight-loss Tactic. I'd Just Been Too Busy Bumping From Crisis To Crisis. Go On The Sookie Stackhouse Narrow Avoidance Of Death Diet! Run For Your Life, And Miss Meals, Too! Exercise Plus Starvation.

In The World I Lived In, The World Of Human People, There Were Ties And Debts And Consequences And Good Deeds. That Was What Bound People To Society; Maybe That Was What Constituted Society. And I Tried To Live In My Little Niche In It The Best Way I Could.

There Were Definitely Parts Of My Character I Didn’t Approve Of, And Maybe From Time To Time I Had Moments When I Didn’t Like Myself Much. But I Got Through Each Day As It Came To Me, And So Far I’d Survived Every Thing Life Had Thrown At Me. I Could Only Hope That The Survival Was Worth The Price I’d Paid.

Well In Two Months, It'd Be Sunbathing Time. That Made Me Smile. I Enjoyed Lying In The Sun In A Little Bikini, Timing Myself Carefully So I Didn't Burn. I Loved The Smell Of Coconut Oil. And I Don't Want To Hear Any Lectures About How Bad Tanning Is For You. That's My Vice. Everybody Gets One.

He Pulled My Coat Off My Shoulders, Looked At It With Distaste, Hung It On The Back Of One Of The Chairs Pushed In Under The Kitchen Table. "you Are Beautiful". No One Had Ever Looked Me In The Eyes And Said That. Eric To Sookie, Page 208.