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So began a year and a half of changes. And at first these were all for the better.
Lynn not only used her new membership religiously, she found the friends she’d sought. And these workout partners not only pressed her relentlessly to excel, they taught her to improve her outlook, diet and hygiene as well.
The acne was the first to disappear, but the pounds melted away or hardened into muscle with amazing rapidity too. Lynn began wearing makeup and one day came home a beautifully permed auburn instead of a frizzy mousey brownie. From hulking and borderline obese she became merely tall and stout, then muscular and statuesque. She went from moving about in a lumpen shamble to a graceful, easily swinging stride. Meanwhile the face emerging from those disappearing chins was undeniably at
