I’m Just a Number — A Number on a Scale

I’ve got to stop letting myself be reduced to that

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“Oh. You’re bigger.”

Those were the first words my mother said to me when I bounded up the porch steps to wrap my arms around her. And she was right; I was. In the year that had gone by since our last visit, I’d put on 7 pounds, and she has the uncanny ability to guess anyone’s weight…