hunger
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- Hi my name is Roxane and I am going to share the story of my journey with you starting from young childhood through today
- I always loved school and excelled at many subjects. I had(and still have) a loving family that moved around a lot due to my dad's job. I enjoyed many things and had many friends.
- I met a boy who became a good friend to me. We started spending a lot of time together and I started to develop feelings for him.
- One day, my friend invited me to a cabin his family owned in the woods. I knew that I shouldn't have gone, but I liked him and wanted to make him like me. Before I knew it, he took advantage of me and raped me against my will. Then, his friends decided it was ok to do the same thing to me. This forever changed my life...
- I started to feel very depressed and withdrawn from everybody around me. Nothing made me feel good or happy and I didn't want to tell anybody what had happened due to total embarrassment and humiliation.
- Due to my sadness and desperation, I started turning to food as a crutch. It was the only thing that made me feel protected and helped me build an "armor" of unattractiveness. I felt this would keep everybody away
- My parents enrolled me at a prestigious boarding school where I had free reign to do whatever I wanted. I began to gain a tremendous amount of weight and sink lower into depression. I graduated and was accepted to Yale where my cycle continued.
- I dropped out of Yale midway through my studies and moved across the country to try and find myself through various jobs and relationships. I was getting heavier and started binge eating. My family was so worried about me and I was spiraling out of control. My 20's were a time of discovery, but severe difficulty as well. I still kept my secret and it was beginning to disintegrate my very being. I soon discovered that I wanted to become a professor and how much writing was an escape for me.
- I was often nervous to go to public places for fear of being judged and just being uncomfortable due to my size. It literally affected everything in my life. I was trying to go to the gym to help myself, but I would fall back into bad patterns of overeating.
- One day, I fell and broke my leg. I was devastated to learn that I would have to have surgery to repair my injury as I was terrified of doctors. My family quickly came to my side and helped me recuperate through my ordeal. It began to make me recognize how loved I was and how many people actually cared about me.
- After this realization, I decided it was time to share my secret with my parents. It felt so relieving to finally let go of the torture I had let take over my life for so long. It was a purge that I had wished I had done many years before.
- I have finally come to realize that my past is my story. I have become an award winning writer and telling my story through "Hunger" was very cathartic. I recognize that I will never be able to fully heal my wounds, but now I have the ability to accept them, acknowledge them and embrace my story.
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