Starve yourself summer, I thought as I woke up the morning after graduation. It would pay off when I saw the pride in my mother's eyes.
She'd been putting me on diets since I was in elementary school. None worked, not that I tried too hard.
I'd seen that disappointment on her face again when I'd decided to go to a state school instead of the art college.
She wanted me to make something of myself and I would - this fall, I'd emerge like a butterfly from a cocoon.
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