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    What’s the Story?

    May 31, 2018 3 minutes
    LEE GUTKIND

    I’VE BEEN STARTING OVER my whole life.

    I graduated high school in the bottom fifth of my class. I weighed 220 pounds, and the kids in my neighborhood called me “Slim,” “Jelly Belly,” and “Fat Fuck.” I tried to tell myself that my weight and my lackluster performance in high school didn’t matter, that I would get a job or go to college, sooner or later, and succeed. But I had no money, and

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