…CBS released The Karen Carpenter Story. Karen died unexpectedly …of heart failure at age 32 brought on by years of self abuse from the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa. But what brought Karen’s fatal obsession with weight control? It seems a reviewer once called her “Richard’s chubby sister.”

Lord, please help us to know the power of our words!

-USA Today, December 30, 1988


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