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University of Baltimore Professor Marion Winik is the author of "The Big Book of the Dead,” “First Comes Love,” and several other books, and the host of The Weekly Reader on WYPR. Sign up for her monthly email at marionwinik.com.
After documenting her weight loss with semaglutide, followed by weight gain after going off the expensive drug, Marion Winik has re-lost the pounds with the help of a less expensive, gray-market version of retatrutide.
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