Valerie: I want you to pretend just for a moment that your fantasy came true. Do you think that she would have lived up to your fantasy?
Karen: Well there’s a loaded question. To be honest I have to admit that given enough time the gloss might have rubbed off but what I did come to realise afterwards was that I was attracted to women and for quite different reasons than my attraction for men.
Valerie: So she was a watershed for you?
Karen: Definitely, and not just because I admitted to myself I had a crush on her but the fact that I’d lost so much weight and gained so much self confidence, I felt like a new woman.
Valerie: Do you still see her?
Karen: No, she moved to the Gold Coast and when she accepted my friend request on f*******: I found out she’d moved to Scotland and was now di
