"I am afraid my ability to keep a reasonable house, to meet friends, to have a normal life - that, I think, will be seriously curtailed or stopped altogether", she told me.

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In my dreams I keep checking for cracks in the house.

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And I will not be made to feel ashamed of what I have achieved because of some bogus study that purports to assume that I will not be able to keep my house clean.

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