"In my 20s and 30s, I opted for a career in the city working in London and Manchester as a marketing consultant... The closest link I had to anything green was the vase of dead flowers on my desk."
"I had been struck down by the most severe form of ME— a physically disabling illness for which there is no cure. For the best part of two years, I was little more than a breathing corpse."
"Then an unexpected gift began to revive a sense of joy I thought I had lost forever... From that moment on, gardening lost its appeal: the memories were just too painful."
"Neither of us realized it would be five years before I would be physically strong enough to walk back down the stairs on my own... I thought ME was just about being tired. How blissfully ignorant I was."
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