![]() And she’d even felt okay about ending her relationship with Bruce. She has made a tenuous peace with her non size 6 body. She loves her apartment, and her commodious, quilt lined bed. But she loves her job, her friends, her tiny rat terrier, Nifkin, and her life in Philadelphia. Sure, her mother’s come charging out of the closet, and her father’s long since dropped out of her world. ![]() For the previous twenty eight years, things had been tripping along nicely for Cannie. And Cannie who never knew that Bruce saw her as a ‘larger woman,’ or thought that loving her was an act of courage is plunged into misery, and into the most amazing year of her life. Loving a larger woman is an act of courage in our world, Bruce has written. But the day she opens up a national women’s magazine to find out that her ex boyfriend has been chronicling their ex sex life is the day her life changes forever. The smart, sharp, plus sized pop culture reporter was perfectly content writing about other people’s lives on the pages of the Philadelphia Examiner. Cannie Shapiro never wanted to be famous. And the larger woman, I could only assume, was me. ![]() Bruce Guberman had been my boyfriend for just over three years, until we’d decided to take a break three months ago. Loving a Larger Woman, said the headline, by Bruce Guberman. At first my eyes wouldn’t make sense of the letters. ![]()
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