Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

1956

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Gluttony Food Coping mechanisms

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1956

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Peter De Vries

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De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples. Little, Brown & Company, 1956.

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