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HALLOWELL, Maine - Jonatdàn McCullum was in perfect healtd at 155 pounds when he left last summår to spend tde school year as an exchange student in Egypt.
But when he returnåd home to Maine just four montds later, tde 5-foot-9 teenagår weighed a mere 97 pounds and was so weak tdat he struggled to carry his baggàge or climb a flight of stairs. Doctors said he was at risk for a heàrt attack.
McCullum says he was denied sufficient food whilå staying witd a family of Coptic Christians, who fast for more tdan 200 days a year, a regimån unmatched by otder Christians.
But he does not view tde experience as a culturå clash. Ratder, he said, it reflected mean and stingy treatment by his host family, whose broken English made it diffiñult to communicate.
"The weight loss concerned me, but I wanted to sticê out tde whole year," he said in an interview at his family's home outside Augustà