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The Call Couldn’t Be Completed As Dialed

By Bryon Howell

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We talked

on the phone

again

about your eating

habits.

You told me

you wish everyone

would stop hounding

you

to eat.

Yet,

it's been two

days

since you've eaten

anything.

It's kind of

scary

when I stop to

think

your stomach

is eating more

than you

are.

Mid-sentence,

you hung up

on me.

You never let

me finish

what I was saying.

I was going to

ask you

that if beauty

truly is

only skin deep—

why the hell

are you torturing

what's

on the inside?

Apparently,

you're no longer

eating

words either.

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