She uses this to approach the audience, and make them think if they confront the word, it would make them more likely to read the article for her, rather than for her disease. Mairs also repeats the phrase, “life wrenched by change and loss, change and loss,”(Mairs 30) to show how change and loss repeats in her life. Mairs also repeats the word “lucky,” for example, when she said “overall I’ve been lucky so far,” and when she said “I am lucky that my predilections were already solitary.” Some people might find this surprising because lucky isn’t a word often used when talking about crippled