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Three-hundred-pound Alicia punched that 800 number into her phone as fast as her acrylics could go.
After a week of hawk-eyeing the television for the Tons-Away infomercial, it was finally here, flashing Miraculous Weight Loss in a Tiny Tablet! Call by midnight to get a second month’s supply at 50% off! in neon letters and filling her with hope. Her friend Kathy had been taking the stuff for three weeks and had already lost almost twenty pounds—and no matter what, Alicia was desperate to be next.
She’d noticed right away when Kathy started losing weight. Alicia had asked her how she was dropping the pounds.
“Oh, you know, just eating healthy. Reaching for an apple when I want a snack,” Kathy had said.
Like hell. She and Kathy had been the fatty twins since elementary school
