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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Loss

Kummerspeck

KOOM-er-shpek

n.Weight gained from emotional eating.

German — literally 'grief bacon'Established linguistic term

Eleven Kilos

The German word for it translates as grief bacon, which Hannah found so funny the first time she heard it that she had to put down what she was eating, which was, at the time, a family bag of crisps at eleven at night on a Tuesday in February.

That was month three.

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The order of it, for the record, because nobody describes the order:

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