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Hal supine, Pemulis wants to interface

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It occurred to me that I didn’t have to eat if I was not hungry. This presented itself as almost a revelation. I hadn’t been hungry in over a week. I could remember when I was always hungry, constantly hungry.

Context

Four flat sentences carrying the theme's clinical core: appetite — the adolescent athlete's most reliable drive — has simply switched off, and its absence registers not as alarm but as a labor-saving "revelation." Anhedonia's quiet onset, vegetative sign by vegetative sign.

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