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Andrea is now twenty three years old and weighs one hundred and twenty four pounds. Since her brother has been in and out of rehab, he could no longer pick on her or tease her anymore. Her parents started coming around more often and got Andrea all the help she could get. It was a long and hard process as Andrea went through rehab but the love and support from her family and friends helped her pull through it. No one should sit back and let anorexia affect someone they love. If no one would have noticed what Andrea was going through, she wouldn't be alive to this day. Anorexia can be a scary thing but it is even scarier to sit back and watch someone you care about rot away. Someone who you love that is dying to be thin.
Anorexia is known as an eating disorder where people starve themselves. Anorexia can also be known as a misperception of body weight and shape to the extent that the person feels fat even when underweight. This disease is most common among people made up of the......

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