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Woman's Weekly. Royal Wedding




A Royal wedding is a very special chance for the country - and the rest of the world - to share and celebrate a joyous occasion. And for us at Woman's Weekly, it has also provided the opportunity to bring you a very special commemorative magazine to mark this happiest of days.

Over the past few months we've scrutinised every minute detail of the plans and preparations to bring you the most fascinating facts about the couple, their lives, their families and their big day, as well as an unprecedented glimpse behind the scenes of royal life.

We've also spent many fascinating hours looking through the Woman's Weekly archives to provide you with a unique insight into the way our 100-year-old magazine has marked and commemorated royal romances and weddings in the past.

As for the wedding itself, we hope you'll find we've captured the joy, the fun, the romance and, above all, the deep sense of history enveloping this delightful young couple who have sealed their very private romance in such a spectacularly public way.

So join us in this glorious celebration as we wish Kate and William a long and very happy married life together.

All about Will [18]

“We take a look at the destination, duty and life-enhancing experiences that are making a very modern prince.”

After the excitement of Charles and Diana’s fairy-tale wedding in 1981, everyone keenly anticipated news of an heir. They didn’t have to wait long. Less than a year later, on 21st June 1982, Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Wales born.

A cardboard sign was hung from the gates of St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington saying simply, “It’s a boy”. When his proud parents appeared with him outside the hospital a few days later, Charles beaming, and Diana looking shyly through her fringe, Charles said: “The birth of our son has given us both more pleasure than you can imagine”.

Although as a king-in-waiting everything about William’s life – his education, his career, his lifestyle – would have been planned specifically to prepare him for his role as a future monarch, Diana was also fiercely determined that her son’s life would be as “normal” as possible. The fact that he was born in hospital and not Buckingham Palace Already broke with 150 years of tradition.

Diana insisted on Breast-feeding and, much to the consternation of officials took the nine-month-old prince with her and Charles on a royal tour of Australia and New Zealand. Princes of previous generations would most definitely have been left behind with a nanny.

Although, even this early on in their marriage, strains had already begun to appear in Charles and Diana’s relationship, Diana was quoted as saying: “The one thing his father and I were absolutely agreed on was that William would have as normal as upbringing as possible.”

When William was two, his brother Harry was born, and by the time he was four his parents’ marriage had deteriorated to the point where they were effectively living separate lives. Charles had moved most of his belongings to Highgrove in Gloucestershire, while Diana remained at Kensington Palace with the boys.

She was very keen that her sons should escape the formal atmosphere of the palace, and socialize with other children, so William was enrolled at the local nursery school in nearby Notting Hill – instead of being schooled at home by a governess as royal protocol had always dictated. William went on to Wetherby School, then became a boarder at Ludgrove School in Berkshire and, in 1995, was enrolled as “William Wales” at Eton College. Pointedly, he was not sent off to the Scottish public school Gordonstoun, like his father, uncles and grandfather before him, because Charles had famously hated in. At Eton, he joined friends from Ludgrove and was close enough to Windsor castle to have tea with Granny on Sunday afternoons – which, by all accounts, both parties hugely enjoyed.

At school William excelled at sport, captaining many of the school teams, and he left Eton with three a-levels – an A in geography, B in history of art and C in biology – and a place as St. Andrews University.

This academic achievement, once again unprecedented in royal in a royal heir, was all the more praiseworthy because of the terrible turbulence he had to endure during his teens. In 1996, when William was 14, his parents’ divorce was finalized. This must have been an extremely difficult time for William, trying to remain loyal to both his mother and father while dividing his time between them and adjusting to the contrast between Diana’s glamorous jet-set existence and his father’s more traditional way of life.

Then, on 31st August 1997 Diana died in a Paris car accident. Her boys were Charles at Balmoral, where tradition and royal protocol were virtually unavoidable. Only hours after hearing that their mother was dead, William, just 15, and Harry, 12, were expected to attend the Sunday service at the nearby Crathie Kirk. And who could ever forget the brave stoicism on their walked behind the coffin – borne on a gun carriage from The Mall to Westminster Abbey – at her funeral, just a week later.

Before taking his place at St. Andrews four years later, William embarked on a gap year packed with “work experience” and character–building escapades. He joined the Welsh Guards for a training exercise in Belize (he was in the middle of the jungle when his father emailed over his A-level results), then registered as a helper, under the name Brian Woods, with the Royal Geographical Society’s “Shoals of Capricorn” marine conservation progamme in Mauritius. Later he flew to Chile for a Raleigh International expedition and enjoyed month helping with building projects and teaching English to the children there. He also spent some time studying conservation an Africa.

Not surprisingly there was always much speculation about the girls who might attract the interest of this all, sporty prince, who had inherited his mother’s good looks. There were rumors that his “first love” was childhood friend Rose Farquhar, daughter of Captain Ian Farquhar, Master of the Beaufort Hunt, who stole his heart after he left Eton in the summer 2000.

The name Jecca Craig also loomed large. He’d met Jecca when they were both 16, and again when he returned to Lewa Downs, her family’s game reserve in Kenya during his gap year. Jecca was also seated in the place of honor beside William at his 21st birthday party at Windsor Castle, even though everyone though he was dating Kate at the time.

William had so far never been seen kissing any girl in public and, as a result, rumors of romance were never properly substantiated. But in the summer of 2001 he is believed to have fallen for Arabella Musgrave, daughter of the manager of Cirencester Park Polo Club, and although they’d agreed to split before Will went to university, they would occasionally meet up when he spent weekends at Highgrove.

At university, William threw himself into academic and sporting life, but it wasn’t long before Kate joined his close circles of friends. In fact, she is widely credited for encouraging him to stick with his degree when his commitment wavered at the crib of the first term, and for persuading him to switch from history of art – the course she was also on- to geography so e could pursue his interest in environmental issues. In the end, both Kate and William graduated from university with very commendable 2:1 degrees.

His friendship with Kate dominated his St Andrews years, but there was speculation that William dated fellow St Andrews students Carly Massy-Birch and Olivia Hunt during his time at university. It wasn’t until 2006 that the media finally caught William’s snatched kiss with Kate during a skiing holiday at Klosters, confirming rumors of the pretty Miss Middleton was very much a part of his life.

As a future king, William has been instructed in royal duties from a young age. Not only did he accompany his parents overseas on royal tours from babyhood, he began official photo-calls at 18 months and was just eight when he made his first formal public appearance on St David's Day at Llandaff Cathedral where he signed the visitors' book.

Both William and Harry have been obliged to serve in the forces, but as a future monarch, William has to undergo a wide range of attachments — in all sectors of the armed forces. In 2006 he enrolled at Sandhurst to train to be an Army officer, and spent the following year as an Army cadet in Dorset, and then in 2008 he trained with the RAF.

Four months later, Charles presented his son with his RAF wings, as Prince Philip had done for him 37 years earlier, before William moved on to training as a helicopter pilot.

But William's military career isn't just for show - it clearly matters a great deal to him. A royal of official told The Daily Telegraph, "Part of Prince William's motivation is to be able to earn his rank and position. He wants to be able to look other members of the armed forces in eye and say: "I am a genuine full-time serving officer in the RAF. I want to he used like any other officer and not he favored or mollycoddled'. "He is currently a pilot" with the RAF's Search and Rescue Force and is expected to remain with 22 Squadron in Anglesey until 2013.

Whatever else he does, there are always royal duties to uphold. Like all other members of the Royal Family, William has charity work he takes very seriously. He is currently patron of at least 13 organizations, including the Tuck Trust, an African conservation project, and Centrepoint, which helps homeless young people – a cause close to his mother's heart.

Above all, William has said he is determined not to be portrayed as a “shadow king" hiding his time in the background, and is keen to carve out a role for himself in his own right. Which is just as well because, if his father enjoys the health and longevity of his own mother, the Queen, it could be 20 or even 30 years before King William and Queen Catherine finally ascend to the throne?

All about Kate [19]

“From gangly schoolgirl to beautiful princess, we look behind the scenes of the life of the “perfectly ordinary” bride-to-be.”

Although Kate is often referred to as an ordinary civilian, just like Diana and the late Queen Mother were, a peek into her past confirms that she really is very "normal" indeed. Whereas Diana's father was an earl, and the Queen Mum had landed gentry in her ancestry, Kate's parents are solidly middle class — in fact, her grandparents were once decidedly working class.

Kate's mother Carole was working as an air stewardess when she met Michael Middleton, a flight dispatcher responsible for co-ordination aircraft arrivals and departures. The couple married in 1980, and Kate, their eldest child, was born in January 1982 — the same year that Diana gave birth to William.

As a toddler, Kate and her baby sister Philippa spent two years in Jordan with the family when Michael took a job with British Airways there. Kate picked up rudimentary Arabic at nursery school in the capital, Amman. Hack in the UK, they settled in leafy suburbia, in the village of Bradfield Southend, near Reading in Berkshire, and Kate's brother James was born.

When the girls were at preschool, Carole developed a reputation for throwing fantastic children's parties and started making up party bags to sell to other mothers. Then, when Kate went off to the local primary school, Carole took the brave move of establishing her own business - Party Pieces - which, according to the website, would "inspire other mothers to create magical parties at home and to make party organizing a little easier", She targeted local mothers with catalogues featuring photographs of Kate and Pippa modeling some of the products. Dressed in T-shirts with their initials on the front, the Middleton sisters' cute look sold their another’s products perfectly.

As the business grew, the Middleton girls were moved to a private prep school, St Andrew's in Pangbourne. Initially a day pupil, Kate became a weekly boarder at 11. While she did well academically, it was in sport that she excelled. She was captain of the school netball team and broke a series of school swimming records. In her final year, she was named best all-round sportswoman.

"She wasn't particularly pretty as a young girl," recalls Denise Allford, one of her house parents at the time. "She wore braces on her teeth from the age of 12; she was thin and much taller than the other girls - quite gangly really."

Carole was enterprising enough to be one of the first to create her own website and, with business booming the family moved further into the countryside on the outskirts of Chapel Row in Berkshire where they live today.

Ahfter passing her Common Entrance exam, Kate became a boarder at Downe House, a school ii few miles from home, but by the end of her first term, her parents had decided to move her (there were allegations of bullying), and just after her 14th birthday, Kate started boarding at the prestigious Marlborough College public school.

Marlborough has since been dubbed the "First Wives Club" because the Prime Minster, the Chancellor and now the future king have chosen old Marlburians for their partners. Kate joins the ranks of Samantha Cameron, Frances Osbourne and the wife of the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sally Becow.

She worked hard, but remained very sporty, becoming captain of the school hockey team and playing in the first pair at tennis. She left with three A-levels: A grades in math’s and art and a B in English.

Like William, Kate had a gap year before university and spent much of that time in Italy, taking a 12-week course in Italian at the British Institute. She and her sister were rather cruelly dubbed the "Wisteria Sisters" in society circles because, it was said. They were "highly decorative, terribly fragrant and with a ferocious ability To climb".

By the time Kate arrived at the University of St Andrews in October 2001, the whole world knew that William would be there and, as they were doing the same history of art degree and staying in the same halls of residence (St Salvator's Hall, nicknamed "Sally's") it was inevitable they would meet.

Over the first few months, Kate became a member of William's St Andrews set. Although the baying packs of press photographers had promised to leave William alone and not trail around after him at university, royal reporters soon spotted Kate and lined her up as possible love interest.

She threw herself into university life, working and playing hard she briefly dated fellow student Rupert Finch) and by the end of the first year had been publicly dubbed "the prettiest girl at Sally's". But the university's annual charity fashion show towards the end of the first year gave the paparazzi the picture opportunity they had been waiting for. As Kate shimmied clown the catwalk swearing nothing but a sheer shift dress over her underwear, photographers snapped widely. Will, who had paid £200 for a front-row seat, is believed to have turned to his friend Fergus Boyd and exclaimed, "Wow, Kate's hot!" Plans were already afoot for Kate to share a flat with Will and two of their closest friends (Fergus Boyd and Olivia Bleasdale) in the heart of town during their second year at St Andrews.

The four of them had all become firm friends, with Kate clearly very much a part of William's world, but no one really knows the exact point that friendship evolved into love behind those bomb-proofed and heavily guarded door.

EARTH DAY [20]

Imagine a day when 500 million people from 184 countries around the world come together to celebrate and protest with a single purpose in mind. This is just what happened on April 22nd, 2000. The day was Earth Day, and the purpose that the people had in mind was to work for healthier and safer world for everyone. It was the biggest celebration of its kind in human history.

But April 22nd, 2000 was not the first Earth Day. In fact, it was the 30th anniversary of the first Earth Day celebration. In 1962, Gaylord Nelson, a US Senator, looked at the world around him and saw lakes and rivers polluted by rubbish and chemicals, forests that were slowly being destroyed every day, and towns and cities full of smog and car exhaust. Senator Nelson felt that the Government was not doing nearly enough to protect the environment. So he spent the nеxt eight years travelling round the USA and talking to all sorts of people about pollution and other dangers that were harming the planet.

Finally, on April 22nd, 1970. Senator Nelson and group оf university students organized the first Earth Day. The event was much more successful than the organizers had ever expected: over 20 million people - young and old, rich and poor, city people and country people - took part.

Today, Earth Day is celebrated all over the world, and some countries even celebrate Earth Week the week before April 22nd, and Earth Month throughout the whole month of April. Over 5.000 different environmental organizations are connected by the Internet, and they help people in their communities to plan demonstrations, campaigns, talks and other activities. But the idea is the same as it was in 1970, millions of people from all over the planet rich and poor, old and young who want to build healthier and safer world take part.

The problems that Gaylord Nelson saw everywhere in the 1960s still exist, and now we know about things like global warming and acid rain that most people could not even imagine 40 years ago. We need Earth Day today more than ever. So what can we do? Many young people participate through the schools on Earth Day. They organize clean-up campaigns or pick up rubbish in their communities. Others write letters to their Council asking for more environmental protection laws. Still others organize marches to promote recycling and other energy saving activities. But perhaps the best way to celebrate Earth Day is to follow the organizers' advice: "Do something nice for the Earth, have fun, meet new people, and make a difference".

LIFE WITH THE BOX [21]

Television belongs to the twentieth century. John Baird from Scotland was one of the first men to send pictures of moving things by electric waves. His friends who lived a few miles away were able to receive these pictures at the same time.

In 1928 he showed that colour TV was possible. Although he had discovered all this, there were other people who also wanted to make television systems and later in 1936 a system from America was first used in Britain.

Today in Britain and the USA television is very popular. Ninety-nine per cent of all households own at least one TV set and over half of these also own video recorders. Television has an enormous effect on Americans. Politicians know all about this. They try to make their big public speeches at times when they can get the largest audiences on the evening news programmes. Advertisers, too, understand the power of television. They are willing to spend billions of dollars a year on television.

In Britain the average adult watches twenty-six hours of television a week and children watch about twenty hours. Some Americans watch twice as much! People say too much television is bad for children because they just watch the pictures and don't think - but they can also learn a lot from TV.

At present there are four television channels in operation: BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV and Channel 4. BBC1 concentrates more on programmes of general interest, such as light entertainment, comedy, sport or children's programmes. BBC 2 provides serious programmes: drama, documentaries, classical music, including occasionally full-length operas. If we watch the news programmes, we can see what is happening all over the world.

The news about American television is not all bad. For one thing, Americans themselves are turning off the more violent shows and watching more comedy and news programmes. For another, the news programmes themselves are becoming more interesting. The most popular is "60 Minutes". If you haven't watched it on Sunday, you won't know what your friends are talking about on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.

THE COUCH POTATOES [22]

Do you like spending evenings in front of the TV eating and drinking while you watch hour after hour of television programmes?

If so, you have already become a "Couch Potato"! The Couch Potatoes are a special group of TV viewers in America who believe that the more television you watch the better. These people sometimes sit in front of the box for twelve hours nonstop. One group of Couch Potatoes in San Francisco meets regularly to watch nine different television sets at the same time. This is no problem in America because in some areas you can watch over thirty TV programmes. Usually the Couch Potatoes just sit in front of the TV with enough Coke to drink and as many bags of potato crisps as they can eat.

Why do they watch so much TV? Jack Mingo, one of the leaders of the Couch Potatoes says, "It makes sense to watch a lot of TV because life is too short to do everything you want to do. More things happen on TV in a month than could possibly happen in your whole life!"


Going to a Camp [23]

For a lot of families who live in America and Great Britain summer vacations can be a problem. Many mothers work full-time, and there is no one at home to look after the kids while they are off school. So holiday camps are the ideal solution for many families.

About five million American youngsters between 6 and 21 set off for camp every summer. Going to camp is a part of We for millions of them. They can choose among 10.000 camps throughout the USA. Going to camp is becoming popular in Britain, too.

Most of the camps offer traditional activities such as hiking, riding as well as singing round the camp fire. But there are other kinds of camps, where some kids can get help to improve their grades at school. Hi-tech camps teach computer skills. Athletic camps are also very popular. Youngsters can Improve their skills in tennis, golf, or other sports with a training program of about 30 hours a week. They are looked after by counsellors who are often university students and other young people doing summer jobs. A number of these counsellors come from abroad. For native speakers among the counsellors it is a great chance to improve their language skill.

What do parents and their children expect to get out of summer camps? There are a few weeks of healthy outdoor living. Many choose camps especially for the social skills which are taught – making friends, living and working together, and becoming independent.

The young people are often a little nervous and many are homesick at first but usually they settle in very quickly. In the end they often find that some of their best friends are from the camp, not from school. And when they have grown up, they like to send their own kids.


FOOD SAFETY [24]

There are two sides of the food issue. In poor countries it's a question of life and death. In rich countries question of health and diet.

Food has become a source of anxiety to many people. Behind it lies a revolution in the way our food is now produced. The problem is that a vast range of chemicals used on the modem farm have crept into our food. Our diet - the food we eat - is not always healthy.

30% of Americans and 25%, of Europeans are fat because they eat too much junk food: humburgers, popcorn, pizza, chocolate. Why is junk food bad for us? The answer is simple. It contains too much sugar and fat. This is the reason why so many people die of heart diseases.

Finally, there are “additives” - group of chemicals which food factories use. They make food look better, taste better, last longer. The best recommendation is to stop eating processed foods. Instead there is a diet of fruit, vegetables, brown bread, fish and other “health” foods.

But even health food isn’t always healthy. People don't just pollute the atmosphere. They pollute themselves too. Modern farmers and food factories use over three thousand chemicals. Some are "fertilizers" - these help crop to grow. Others are "pesticides" which kill insects. The third group are "hormones" - these make animals, like pigs, grow more quickly.

Concern about health risks caused great demand for organic food, grown without chemical! Chemicals are replaced by crop rotation. Organic agriculture is also kinder to the environment, the soil and farm workers.

You may turn your worry about food to action. As a shopper you have a great deal of influence. How you choose to spend your money shape the supply chain policy. Citizens can choose and campaign for food that is safe to eat, healthy for themselves and the environment.


HOBBIES [25]

Today people have more time for leisure activities than they did in the past, mainly due to shorter working hours. People also have higher incomes2 and more paid holidays3, so they are now able to follow a wider range ofinterests and activities in their spare time. Hobbies differ like tastes.If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.

Hobbies are divided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of a everything from gardening to traveling and from chess to volleyball.

As a result, the leisure industry has become very commercialized and caters to a wide range of tastes. Mass entertainment, including spectator sports, television, music, computer games and the cinema, the travel industry and "do-it-yourself" industry are now very big businesses.

People also do much sport. They do it for many reasons. Most people are amateurs and do sport just for fun, for the exercise and to keep fit. There is some difference between sport in Britain and in other countries. For example, skiing is not very popular in Britain as there are not many mountains. They don't play much basketball and volleyball either, but many people play rugby. The British play many sports that are unknown in most other countries, for cricket, squash and netball.

Cricket is a typically British sport which foreigners have difficulty in understanding. There are two teams of eleven players. Matches last from one to five days. Many people think it is a slow and boring game, but it can be very exciting and rather dangerous. The ball often travels at a speed of 160kph!

Squash is another British invention. It is a form of tennis. There are two players and use rackets similar to tennis rackets and a small, black rubber ball. They play indoors. It is a very fast and tiring sport!

Netball is similar to basketball There are seven payers {usually girls or women) in each team and the object of the game is the same as in basketball: to throw the ball through a net at the top of a three-metre post.

Among young people extreme sports become more widespread. Parachuting and mountaineering have been popular with people looking for thrills and adventure. It is a chance to express their individuality, it is also an alternative to traditional sports.

Extreme or action sports include inline skating, skateboarding, hang gliding, surfing and many others. Unlike many other types of sport, there are often no official rules. But the main thing is not to take unnecessary risks!

MEGACITIES: TWO VIEWS [26]

Megacity is a city with a population of five million and more

The world's population is not only growing, it is also becoming more urbanized. An increasing number of people are moving to cities in the hope of having a better life. The cities promise steady work and higher salaries. With more money, people think they can provide for their families more easily.

As the population becomes more urbanized, megacities are created. Yes, there are more jobs in urban areas, but is the quality of fife better in these megacities? A quick survey of several major cities reveals some of their problems: pollution from auto emissions is poisoning the air; landfills are overflowing with garbage. With declining resources and growing competition, sometimes there is not enough food. These are all very serious problems.

We cannot get rid of megacities - they are here to stay. What we should concentrate on, however, is building "villages" inside the cities. These "urban villages" could be self-sufficient and grow their own food. The members of these villages would recycle and do very little damage to the environment. The villages would serve the needs of the local people, not big business. We need to limit large-scale development, not encourage it.

It's true that megacities have problems, but these have been exaggerated. The truth of the matter is that people move to cities to escape the hard life in the country. Urban areas, even

with their problems, offer people a better life than in rural areas. The old ways of life in rural areas have broken down, and it is now very difficult to make a living as a farmer.

People live longer in the cities. Medical care is better there. And of course, employment opportunities can be found everywhere in city. We should continue to develop city services so that people can enjoy their lives in the world's urban centers.

Rather than limiting development, we should encourage it. People transportation systems need to be developed so that people can travel to and from work and school easily. The more we clean up and develop our megacities, the more life will improve for residents of those cities.

SIBLING CONFLICT [27]

“Why can’t our kids just get along? Why must they always fight?" Parents get tired of the bickering, teasing, competing. They can't underhand why their children can't leave each other alone, and just be friends. "Who needs it?" parents ask.

The answer is "the children do." Fighting is not a sign of children not getting along. It is how they get along - using conflict to test their power, establish differences, and ventilate emotion. Children compete for dominance, parental attention, parental support, and household resources. Who gets what? Who does what? Who goes first? Who gets most? Who's right? Who's best?

When we are children, our brothers and sisters - are our first friends and first enemies. The effect of sibling relationships in childhood can last a lifetime. Many experts say that the relationship among brothers and sisters explains a great deal about family life, especially today when brothers and sisters often spend more time with one another than with their parents.

Studies have shown that sibling relationships between sister-sister pairs and brother-brother pairs are different. Sister pairs are the closest. Brothers are the most competitive. Sisters are usually more supportive of each other. They are more talkative, frank, and better at expressing themselves and sharing their feelings. On the other hand, brothers are usually more competitive with each other. The major exception to this is identical twins for whom similarity creates unusual intimacy. The more alike they are, the closer they feel. The closer they feel, the more like they want to become. They can feel incomplete in absence from each other, they can have unspoken means of knowing what is going on in each other, and they may even construct a secret language between them that no one else understands.

Experts agree that the relationship among siblings is influenced by many factors. For example, studies have shown, that both brothers and sisters become more competitive and aggressive when their parents treat them even a little bit differently from one another. But parental treatment is not the only factor. Genetics, gender, life events, people, and experiences outside the family all shape the lives of siblings.

THANKS FOR NOT SMOKING [28]

We've all heard the question "Smoking or non-smoking?" when making plane reservations. And when we travel by train, we have to choose whether we want to sit in a smoking or non-smoking car. In many countries these choices may not be available much longer. In the United States smoking Is now prohibited in most public buildings and on airlines. And the smoking car on trains is already becoming a thing of the past.

Restaurants in the USA are designating separate sections for smokers, hotels are assigning special rooms, and many companies now provide separate areas for employees who smoke. And, of course, we are all bombarded daily with anti-smoking messages in the newspapers, on the radio, and on television.

Being overweight causes a lot of problems. The extract below tells you about one of them. Comment upon the problem. Do overweight people in Russia face the same problems?

Being fat, in fact, can cause real problems for an American. He or she will find it harder to get a good job, or even to make friends. If you want to do well, you must be thin. It doesn't seem fair, does it? Advertisers and fast-food sellers scream at people to eat, eat, and eat. But inside, there is another voice saying "stop, stop, stop."


English Humour [29]




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