She struggles to hold down jobs. Her home life is a mess. But the Stockton songwriter still has her music. Others are dancing perilously close to the edge of an eating disorder, say doctors, teachers and the young people themselves. At Cindy's funeral, says one Lincoln teacher, a number of her girlfriends looked sickly thin.
Every morning is a chore.
Bulimia didn't look too pretty on the television soap opera, but the actress she envied sure did. I thought it was sick. She weighed herself five times a day. I'd have a really bad day if I didn't like my weight. She spent a week at Stanford University's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.