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" I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it. "

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" The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to change - I started looking at the things I could change, like the way research is funded. "

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" But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's not how our similarities work together; it's how our differences work together. "

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