“Contrary to self-help memes, disease is not a gift. Gifts are free; the afflicted pay for their ailments with painful treatments, mood swings and micro-humiliations.
That said, disease does provide the gift of insight.”
In this week’s Modern Love essay, “Please Let Me Do More Laundry and Vacuuming!” Sam Harper explains how vision loss caused by a hereditary disease helped him see marriage — and its division of labor — in a new light.
