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Mary – What’s been the most unexpected change in your life?

Mary – What’s been the most unexpected change in your life?

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How normal our family is, and how we have a new kind of normal now that is just as comfortable as the old normal was.  I don’t know how long it took to get there.  It took a long time, but I couldn’t tell you just when it happened.  But all of... Show More

How normal our family is, and how we have a new kind of normal now that is just as comfortable as the old normal was.  I don’t know how long it took to get there.  It took a long time, but I couldn’t tell you just when it happened.  But all of the sudden, you wake up one day and you don’t have that awful feeling inside.  You’re planning on what’s going to happen tomorrow, and looking forward to the future and thinking of other things.  There’s a little bit of guilt in there because all of a sudden you’re not thinking of what has happened, you’re thinking of other things.  And gradually letting go of that and just experiencing your new life was the best part, I guess. 

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Mary – What’s been the most unexpected change in your life?

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Daughter injured in 1988 at age 22, quadriplegic
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How normal our family is, and how we have a new kind of normal now that is just as comfortable as the old normal was.  I don’t know how long it took to get there.  It took a long time, but I couldn’t tell you just when it happened.  But all of the sudden, you wake up one day and you don’t have that awful feeling inside.  You’re planning on what’s going to happen tomorrow, and looking forward to the future and thinking of other things.  There’s a little bit of guilt in there because all of a sudden you’re not thinking of what has happened, you’re thinking of other things.  And gradually letting go of that and just experiencing your new life was the best part, I guess. 

Mary – What’s been the most unexpected change in your life?
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