Courage
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Last published Tue, Oct 30, 2012
Cora's struggle to find herself. She is the middle child and, as everyone knows, gets little to no attention from her parents. She tries to find a way to get attention and forces herself into the rough route of anorexia. Anorexia, doesn't get her more attention, instead it gets her into more fights with her parents and the loss of some friends, but in all of this, will she be able to pick up the pieces and find herself or stay as a living person that is dead inside?
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