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I mentioned (last November) that most weeks I go to cardiac rehabilitation sessions. At each of the four weekly sessions, there are about twenty or so older men and two or three women who have been through some sort of critical heart trouble. It is a mildly athletic occasion, but also a social one. We talk. Often we talk about our ailments in response to the repeated question, ’how are you?’ Often we tell the story of how we are coping with arthritis. I have been searching the internet. There are apparently two main forms of the condition, rheumatoid arthritis