I'll take the skinny one.

Goodbye, thin girl.

Goodbye, thin girl.

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I don't mind a skinny girl.

Good night thin girl.

Wait, wait! Adolph, the thin girl!

Well take care of yourself, thin girl.

I'm gonna get that wallet, Slim.

Pedro Espinosa's little girl the one with the skinny legs and the funny face has she, by any chance, gotten married yet?

Plants are cultivated for their slender roots, which can grow about 1 meter long and 2 cm across.

My hour long work out routine consists of 5 minutes of push ups on my bedroom floor, a denial mirror repelling my lanky limbs 5 minutes of keeping my chin high over the bar of self doubt 10 minutes placing 100 pounds of failure on my chest so it becomes the elephant in the room 10 minutes jogging with ghosts chuckling at my chunky thighs, and I'll smile, knowing I'll soon be able to fit in my old butt pants 30 minutes thinking sweat is a masculinity cloak.

We all went looting the local shops I still have the slim volumes of romantic poetry which my 16 year old self took from a bookshop.

The costs of the government s failure to support farmers can be seen in the stunted bodies of children and the poor diets of adults, even in a year when Malawi is witnessing bumper harvests of corn, the country s staple. Where are we going to get proteins?