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Chapter Eleven

ARTHRITIS—

A NEW

SOLUTION

Marian D’Unger lives in a menagerie. T e

house she and her husband own near a
creek in a suburb of Dallas sits on one and
a half acres. T ere she tends to four cats,

two love birds, two dogs, a rose-breasted
cockatoo and two geese. Every night she
feeds the f f y raccoons that gather on the

property, including one named George,
who she lets come into the house. When
her f ngers swelled up in November 2008

and she had trouble writing, at f rst she
wondered if she’d gotten an insect bite or
something else from one of the animals.

Marian is a real estate agent who loves her work. She sells seven days a

week and shows an average of f f y to seventy-f ve houses a week. She always

wears boots with her glitzy jeans and tailored blazers because she never

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