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15. A laptop for Lyric, so she can start writing again...

Wed Dec 11, 2013, 12:44 AM

Dec 2013

I can see the frustration within her...
The desktop PC that we all use isn't comfortable for her to sit at for more than a few minutes at a time...
The psoriatic arthritis is making it impossible for her to write much longhand...

She's won every award that WVU gives to their poets, but is losing her ability to create simply due to these circumstances.

With a laptop again (our last one died by virus after we loaned it to relatives), she could sit or lay down on the bed and be comfortable for longer periods of time while composing her poetry -- and i know she has a host of things swirling around in her head that ~need~ that outlet.

Things will be kinda tight until tax-refund time, but that's the thing on the top of the list once we get that in the bank.

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