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One of my roles in life is being a wife. With this role there are many occupations, activities, and tasks that contribute to it. One of my occupations as a wife that I participate in on a regular basis is doing laundry. There are many smaller activities that make up doing laundry like putting the clothes into the washing machine and folding the clothes. A task of folding the laundry is grabbing a shirt. This is an essential piece of performing and completing the activity.

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Logan and I on our first day of OT school.

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