It was a ravaged face that drew close to
yours as an involuntary recoil shook your
mind while you continued congratulating her
on her svelte new appearance. Gone the
thick rolls of flesh so familiar over the past
decades, in their place a curvaceous body
with the merest hint of a upper-waist roll.
It was her face that transfixed you, pallid
and grey, wrinkles so deep and wide she was
transformed haggardly at close range. Not
a word of that, hissed your mind to self as
you heard out her references to overeating
on cruises, losing the weight, restoring it on
subsequent cruises. You know her, referencing
status symbols is her shtick and you have no
intention of hinting she was always thick
but smile and stroke her ego for she is after
all, like anyone else, entitled to kindness.
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