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"When Marlene called asking my size for a sweat suit since I can’t go shopping, I was so excited I just had to tell my friend. She said, If you get one, please promise me that you will throw away the one you wear all the time with the holes worn into the seat. They are so comfortable when you can’t do much more than what I call my job: Holding this chair down."

"As the client stood in the kitchen her hands reached out to the counter. She placed her hands on either side of the food. She bowed her head as tears poured from her eyes. Are you ok?, I said. She choked out the words: Who are all these nice people who have provided these things to me? I am so alone. This means so much to me."

"I watched from my window all the teenagers and grown-ups building me a ramp onto my house. I was like a child waiting for them to finish it. I can’t tell you what it has meant for me to go outside on my own in my wheelchair. I’m living again."