A Very Personal Trainer
by Justine Elyot
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CONTENTS
A VERY PERSONAL TRAINER
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
About the Author
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A Very Personal Trainer
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Cover Art by Posh Gosh (C)Copyright May 2011
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Dedication
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To the green tea drinker in my life.
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Trademarks Acknowledgement
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The author acknowledges the trademarked status and trademark owners of the following wordmarks mentioned in this work of fiction:
Marlot: Charles C. Smith
Phish Food: Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.
Starbucks: Starbucks Corporation
iPlayer: Philips Solutions, Inc.
Whittard: Whittard Trading Limited
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Chapter One
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My life back then was full of someones and somethings—
non-specific people and objects who needed my attention in various ways. The trouble was that the someones and somethings appeared to outnumber the units of my attention by a factor of about ten to one. To be frank, things were getting out of hand.
I had let my gym membership slide, my wardrobe was like a rummage sale and any poor dogs needing bones would have been better off canvassing Old Mother Hubbard . My kitchen table was piled high with parking tickets, overdue bill reminders and dog-eared takeaway menus with the phone numbers circled in black marker.
Life was getting away from me, and I didn't like it.
A typical dinner of the period—pasta a la microwave. In other words, some hardened curly things in a blisteringly hot, tasteless sauce. It hardly embodied temptation. Neither did the pile of unironed clothes, the half-finished tax return or the dishes in the kitchen sink. That bottle of Merlot and family-sized tub of Phish Food on the other hand...
No, Lara, no. I would
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