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At first glance, there is nothing remarkable about the old photograph. It appears to be an ordinary scene from the 1970s: the kind [...]

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At sixty-five, I thought I already knew the shape of the rest of my life. I had a comfortable home, two grown children, [...]

When Charlotte Garside was born in England in 2007, everything about her size immediately concerned the people caring for her. She weighed roughly [...]

The smell reached me before I saw anything unusual. It was a warm Saturday morning, and I had gone into the garden expecting [...]