Female + Fat = Fake?

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Author’s note: Confession — there was a time, in elementary school in the late 1950s when I did pretend to be sick. I hated going to school. I was becoming overweight, did not live in a nice house, wore clothes from the Five and Dime stores. I was bullied, teased, taunted and called names. It was the time when bullies were not punished — it was the victim’s job to ignore or walk away and forget about it. It was my fault –not theirs.