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“‘I swear to be the skinniest girl in school, skinnier than you,’ Cassie’s eyes got big as the blood pooled in my hand. She grabbed the knife and slashed her palm, ‘I bet I’ll be skinnier than you.’
‘No, don’t make it a bet. Let’s be skinniest together.’
‘Okay, but I’ll be skinnier’”(179). At this moment, Cassie and Lia made a pact to be the thinnest, most beautiful girls in the entire school. This is when both girls started slowly dying. This is when they became known as the “wintergirls”. In literature, winter is a time when growth stops and there is no hope. Cassie and Lia, bulimic and anorexic, lost hope the minute they agreed on this pact. In the first half of the book, Lia expresses the grief of her friend by focusing on the


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