That is just how we would say it. We are very good at confronting problems head-on. We would take Lizzie back to the future with us in our time machine. We would have to take Lizzie to a time when disordered eating and drug addiction aren’t problems for models and other women pressured to fit society’s definition of beauty, so … oh. As is, tragically, still the case today when some women engage in destructive behaviors, people didn’t want to help Lizzie so much as they wanted to praise how fashionable and skinny she looked. When the painter Ford Madox Brown visited her, he enthused, “Miss
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