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Article: Waiting, not fasting, can be the hardest part.(anti-nuclear activist talks about his hunger strike)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- November 3, 1995
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"Hey protester, you gonna eat or what?" His body covered with garish tattoos and brutal scars, Big Jerry has a gruff voice that masks his genuine concern. "You been fastin' for two weeks and you look like somethin' a cow just barfed up."
Indeed, my normally rounded face had sunk in to reveal an entire set of hard, bony edges, an unfamiliar skeletal image in the jail-issue mirror.
Not wanting to call undue attention to my already incongruous presence in this alien environment, I had attempted to keep hidden the fact that I was fasting. But after a few days of passing up every meal in this tiny canisterlike environment where one quickly learns that each man's ...