The term โstarvation dietโ refers to 900 calories a day. I was on one-third of a starvation diet. What do you call that? One word that comes to my mind: โsuicide.
Marya HornbacherHaving a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.
Marya HornbacherAnd it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.
Marya Hornbacher