Miranda’s MirrorThis is how George and his wife Emma found out.
It was before their daughter’s end of year exam in 1979. “The kid” had just become thinner and thinner, even though she attended every mealtime and ate all her food.
Where did the food go? Not into her body. Or rather, it did not stay there very long. That became clear.
They took her for regular weigh-ins at the doctor, every Friday afternoon after school. Despite becoming more gaunt with every passing day, the doctor’s weighing scale measured Miranda’s mass as perfectly constant. Then they had all the tests done: normal.
This is how she was found out. She asked her parents and the doctor if she could keep her school blazer on during the weighing. Dr. Mentz and her parents obliged. Miranda’s privacy was their priority, she
