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It wasn’t quite a miracle, but it was something special all the same. Stew Sexton drove from the supermarket to his new home in Wellington’s Eastbourne, parked the car in the garage, got the groceries out, took them upstairs to his kitchen and put them away in the pantry. Then he rang his wife Doreen, who was at work, to tell her the good news.

Stew, you see, uses a wheelchair. The otherwise unremarkable business of getting the shopping into cupboards felt

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