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It was the beginning of 2018 when I really started to feel bored with the mundanity of life. My marriage of 20 years had come to an end a few years earlier and my four children – in their late teens and 20s by then – had all left home. I ran my own cleaning business and kept myself busy in my free time doing renovation projects around the house, teaching myself how to tile a bathroom and painting and knocking down walls.
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