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hungerstrike-21) GO ON HUNGER STRIKE WITHOUT TELLING ANYBODY
Let the fame junkies have their hunger strikes in public, with cameras hovering at their bedside and hourly bulletins as metabolic shutdown approaches! Yours will be a private and sober affair, in protest of something that you have told nobody about, conducted in a closet or a windowless bathroom. No need to deprive yourself for too long: a slight dip in the blood-sugar level is all that’s required. And after a couple of hours, you can emerge, weakened but proud, to contemplate a world subtly and irrevocably altered by your actions. You did it. And no one saw.

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  Topics: Lifestyle Features , Protests and Demonstrations
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