“I wish I could be anorexic, just for a month or so.”
This was the first of many enlightening things I overheard my work experience ‘mentor’ telling another staff member. She had just heard the news that Mary-Kate Olsen was seriously ill. She’s obviously joking, I fervently hoped.
My seventeen year-old self was designated the job of answering very personal, medical questions in the monthly column of this popular, national young women’s magazine.
