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Twenty years ago, my sister Jessica’s husband, diagnosed with congestive heart failure and rental failure, began sleeping on the living room couch; she began sleeping on the floor by the couch, like a dog. She monitored his water intake, his medications, his doctors’ appointments and twice weekly IV infusions until her three late-stage unoperable cancers were diagnosed.
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Richardson, L. (2016). 2007: Jessica. In: Seven Minutes from Home. Personal/Public Scholarship. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-543-2_25
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