At 07:16 PM 1/15/98 EST, you wrote:

But has anyone every considered the possibility... what if 
Akane took all those mean things Ranma says at the end of 
the first Shampoo continuity to heart?  What if she started 
to believe her thighs were too thick, etc., and started to do 
whatever it would take to make herself thin?

I *could* do this, considering I've played witness to the disease
firsthand.  But odds are, like me, anyone who would be familiar
enough with the condition to write about it... wouldn't care to
dredge up the memories again.  I certainly wouldn't.

-Deuce

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