"I am afraid my ability to keep a reasonable house, to meet friends, to have a normal life - that, I think, will be seriously curtailed or stopped altogether", she told me.

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The pain and anger she portrayed as she forced Onegin out of her life stopped me cold.

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This past winter, she finally stopped putting it off, and asked me to find her a surgeon.

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She stopped for a moment and looked at Naima and me.

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"And he stopped me dead in my tracks, " she said.

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She admits to having stopped reading books as a result, which I warned her seemed like a bad sign to me.

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"There have been times when I've questioned whether I should move on and do something different but I never stopped loving tennis and I was willing to try something different which paid off for me, " she said.

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