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Lia is in and out of consciousness in the emergency room, listening to the doctors call out stats about her body. She feels like Sleeping Beauty, locked in a glass coffin. Two days later, Lia is judged stable enough to leave the hospital and head home, two days before Christmas. Lia can't help but find it humorous that she's failed at everything in life: eating, not cutting herself, friendship, sisterhood, daughterhood, etc. Yet the medical professionals consider her stable. She has been given 33 stitches, an ironic number. Lia's dad picks her up from the hospital to take her home, but Lia is startled when he takes an odd turn, away from his house. He tells Lia that she won't be coming home with him today. She's moving in with her mother, whether she likes it or not. She will not be...