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Carol Macdonald                Beautiful Surfaces


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       wash or look after myself,                               It became a joke among my
       and for some of those years                              carers as to what they would
       I couldn’t even speak. There                             find at the bottom of my bed
       was no residual energy for                               when they changed the sheets.

       any type of craft/art.                                   It was usually a vast
       There came a point, however,                             treasure trove of items such
       when I began to show slight                              as beads, buttons sequins and
       signs of improvement, and my                             glitter.
       mind began to turn back to
       creativity. I tried to                                   As a Christian. God was very
       discover things that I was                               important to me in getting
       able to do in bed and with                               through those years. Chronic
       very limited energy.                                     illness brings lots of
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