Parents mourning their beautiful daughter decide to talk to the
papers, trying to stop the same thing happening to someone else.
It's
an unselfish thing to do, but what's this? A full and frank appraisal
of their way of life. We read that this family lives in leafy
Buckinghamshire, that they have tennis courts, a swimming pool and
sprawling lawns. They underlying message is, they were rich, they had
all of this, yet they still lost their daughter to anorexia.
Imagine
if they lived in a council flat in Walthamstowe, with dingy net
curtains, threadbare carpets and mould up the walls. Would we have been
told? Probably not. Why is that important, we would have asked
ourselves. Yet somehow The Times decided that the way this family lived
should be spelled out, if it can happen to them, it can happen to
anybody, sort of way.
Stunningly beautiful Sarah, a medical
student, had bought DNP over the internet because of claims that it
burns fat. It is also lethal. That is the only message this family
wanted to get over, nothing else really matters. Does it?
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