And then she was smaller and she could feel it everywhere and in her sleep her underwear felt like someone else's.

And the panhandler who has watched the girls grow longer legs and longer hair says she is disappearing, swimming in her plus sized jeans and this is funny, this connection. Everyone loves a smallening. To watch this carving of flesh, a new shape and new dreams and new spring spring in her step. Everyone loves a success story. Everyone loves the smaller you,

I think about how in the past there were people who didn't love a fatter me. And I think about how I used to be so sad about this. And how I understand them now. I couldn't love a fatter me. And this is part of the healing and part of what makes us work through this. Learning to feel bad for the former fatter you.

And then she was smaller, but not normal small, just smaller for her. And this is another step in the greatest smallening of all time.