![]() She sits with her knees pulled up to her chest at Saul's, an East Bay deli - a convenient but unlikely meeting place. Her rotted teeth (whitened temporarily to hide the brown) have to come out, her heart is smaller than normal, her liver and kidneys damaged. Hornbacher was hospitalized five times between ages 15 and 19, once in a psychiatric hospital, the other times in eating-disorder wards. It's been just a month since she vomited what she ate. By noon the other day, she had had only some orange juice and a few sips of mint tea. She finally thinks she has learned to recognize the signs. Now 23, she has been starving, binging and purging since she was 9. ![]() The book ends in the winter of last year, four years after her near-death experience. Hornbacher, a Bay Area native who now lives in Minneapolis, has detailed her continuing battle with anorexia and bulimia in her harrowing and moving memoir, "Wasted" ( HarperCollins $23). ![]() ![]() She is far better than she was five years ago when she was near death at 52 pounds, worse than she was two years ago when she weighed 135 and was actually hosting dinner parties. ![]()
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