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“For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good food could be a vessel, a way to show love, even when you might not have the words to say so. I could feel it in my soul that this was exactly what I was meant to do now. But the question remained, if I built it, would they come.”

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“...long after a plate had been licked clean, it was the way you felt while you were eating it that carried on for days, months, years. For me food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. Its greatest power was to take taste and turn it into a long-lasting memory.As a girl, I had learned from my father that good food could be a vessel, a way to show love, even when you might not have the words to say so.”

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“They carted me off to a local emergency room, where I sat in a sterile, curtain-lined room for enough hours to fill up nearly an entire day. I was waiting, just racking up my medical bills. Over the span of time I was there, I saw three other women I recognized from the rehab center who had been transferred as well. I wondered how many more there were. We were like pawns being moved around, seemingly based on our ability to pay.”

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“All I had was his program, and now that was being aken away too. All I wanted was to get help and strength I needed to return to my nothing. "Have you booked your flight yet?" asked an impatient nurse who was peeking into my room. I wiped the tears from my face an shook my head no. "An hour ago you wouldn't even let me take a private pee. Now you're just going to open the door and let me walk out? Is this what you do? Just push suicidal girls out the door?" I asked her with bewilderment. I had been blindsided not even ten minutes beofre, and they expected me to have a flight booked already? Was she serious? An hour ago I was on lockdown, not to be trusted to move freely...now I was being asked to leave for the nearest airport with no exit plan, no guidance, no support whatsoever.”

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