Spoiler Alert

by Olivia Dade

But no stranger on the internet could truly hurt her.

If people are cruel, make yourself smaller and smaller, until you’re so inconsequential no one can target you.

Black to disappear. Extra fabric to disguise. As always, fatness was a sin, most likely mortal rather than venial.

But I’m not looking to be fixed. I want to be loved and liked and desired not because of my size, not despite my size, but because I’m ME. My character, my choices, my words.

Because what’s hidden, what’s real, is always more interesting and important to me than appearances or performances.”