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After twelve years confined to a single room by the M.E. monster, Jessica Taylor-Bearman begins to see her dreams come true. She is pregnant.
Yet motherhood brings new challenges. Jessica must navigate life as a disabled mom in an often inaccessible world while facing critics who question her abilities. As if that were not enough, the pandemic strikes just as her family relocates to a new county. Isolation takes on a different meaning as they adjust to life as a family of three in a small apartment, constrained by government restrictions and the constant fear of COVID-19.
Balancing parenthood with chronic illness and confronting the gap between expectations and reality, Jessica discovers that alternative fairy-tale endings are possible, and that life can exist beyond closed doors.
Jessica Taylor-Bearman was born in March 1991, at Maidstone Hospital in England. She grew up in Rochester and Canterbury, Kent, where she attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls. At the age of 15, she became acutely unwell with an illness called M.E. She was continuously hospitalized from 2006 to 2010, suffering with the most severe form of the condition. This included her being bedridden, unable to move, speak, eat and more. She began to write in her mind, and when finally able to speak again, she began to write through her audio diary 'Bug'. In 2009,
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