Can't Wait

The ad in the local paper read, “If nothing else has worked, what have you got to lose? Only those unwanted pounds. Hypnosis is safe and painless, and it gets results. Gain poise and confidence. You can change your life!” Two of the women who answered the ad were neighbors who hardly knew each other before the slim, elegant French-Canadian hypnotist with a beguiling foreign accent came to town, but they bonded over a shared desperation to lose the weight that had plagued them forever. For A...