Nonchalantly, she said,
âIâve always had a thinner waist
you and your sister do not
youâre like your dad
but Iâve always had quite a thin waist.â
It was true:
even at my thinnest point,
I could barely fit into her old wedding dress
which sat, wrinkled, in a box in the attic.
One day, she told me I could have it
which made no sense,
because I was too thick
Thatâs when eating
began to make me sick.