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https://www.tarshi.net/inplainspeak/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1-6.jpg624351Each time I would look into the mirror, I would see the love handles bulging through my shirt and cringe inwardly. Mills and Boon had convinced me that my body was not loveable like that of the thin, beautiful protagonists, and thus, there would no knights coming for me on horses, now or later.