I shoved my dinner away in frustration. Theo slid the bathroom scale aside and set the box containing the finished Aurora necklace in its place. "One less number to look at won't stop you from making jewelry.""You're not going to tell me to eat?""You're not a pet I'm raising." He pushed the fork back into my hand. "If you faint from hunger, I'll just laugh at you."Ten months later, I had gone from two hundred pounds to a hundred and twenty, and all my abnormal health markers had returned to normal.I hadn't turned back into the Erin of twenty-one. I had only learned again what I liked, and when to say no.Aurora became the family jewelry brand's best seller that year, and it won me the North American Emerging Jewelry Designer Award.A year later, the New York Storm asked me to design a commemorative pin for their charity fund.On the day of the launch, I walked back into that old rink in a silver gown of my own design, and the people who had once laughed at me could barely recognize
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