Jan M Flynn
Jul 18, 2024

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Boy howdy, is it ever, and I could be the poster child for it. I HATE scales. Hate, hate, hate, to the point that when my last bathroom scale broke I tossed in the trash and haven't replaced it. I know it seems weird to other people because rationally speaking I don't have a problem with weight. Doesnt' matter. I was pudgy as a kid (by the standards of the day; by today's standards I would have just been a slightly padded normal), traumatized by the public health nurses who came to my elementary school at least once a year to weigh and measure everyone and CALLED THE NUMBERS OUT ACROSS THE ROOM. I was fat-shamed decades before we had a term for it. Scales are the devil.

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Jan M Flynn
Jan M Flynn

Written by Jan M Flynn

Novelist, essayist, inner space explorer. GRIFFIN SPEAKER, book one of a middle grade fantasy series, coming from Disney-Hyperion in spring 2026.

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