1. Dear Ana,
I would never speak to my four year
old self like you speak to me.

2. Dear Ana,
You are burning down the childhood
home I used to love.
3. Dear ana,
How could you call a four year old
fat?

4. Dear Ana,
I have too wanted to unhinge my body
to replace the extra fat with needles and
pins, to unfold myself in this skin

5. Dear Ana
how could you do this to yourself?

6.Dear Ana,
why don’t you feed the hungry children
you shove perfection down their throats

7. Dear Ana,
your voice is so controlling

8. Dear Ana,
This is my body, not yours

9. Dear Ana,
stop interfering with my
definition of beauty

10. Dear Ana,
I can see your rib cage and hip bones,
you are ill.

11. Dear Ana, you are still distorting
my self image.

12. Dear Ana, you will never be
perfect and neither
will I.

13. Dear Ana, I can still hear your
voice.

14. Dear Ana, you cant mold me into your
standards any longer,

15. Dear Ana, Bulimia yanks hair out by the
roots, why don’t you just cut it all off.
here are the scissors
here are the razors.

16.Dear Ana, My body is a ragged
broom stick. I am
burning it to shreds.

17. Dear Ana, why don’t you feed
the poor with
all of the food I have not
consumed.

18. Dear Ana,
I was seven once I realized the
symphony in your voice.

19. Dear Ana, I turned 17 this
year. Ten years you have whispered
the word fat so many times it’s
carved into my skin.

20. Dear Ana,
This is the end of our relationship.