Reading Response 3; Identical

       Raeanne and Kaeleigh continue to tell us more and more of their lives, thereby revealing how truly horrible they are. As I stated earlier, Kaeleigh has been sexually molested by the girls' father and Raeanne is doing anything and everything to gain that sort of attention, from him, from anyone, really. The latest development is that of their eating disorders. Both the girls are bulimic.

"Most people/hate to vomit./Can't stand/the protest/of an upset/stomach,/the heave/of bile and/undigested food,/the carve of/acid in the/esophagus./Okay, I don't/like that/part much/myself. But/I do like/the cool of/porcelain on/my face,/the solid/of tile beneath/my butt./Most of all, I like my belly/emptied, even/temporarily,/of food./Of fat./Of pain."

-Raeanne

"Its screaming to be fed. Begging to be satisfied./Its probably weird/to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being, but that's how it feels./Like it's something living inside you. Something you can't get rid of because killing it means killing you./I can't really understand addictions to drugs or alcohol. Things that control you./But an eating disorder is an addiction you control."

-Kaeleigh

        J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1997, 36(8):1107–1115 has done research on childhood abuse/neglect being linked to Bulimia Nervosa.