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The Guardian journalist Jackie Ashley has been suffering from a broken bone in her foot, and for months she has been hobbling around on crutches or sat on a wheel chair at the mercy of others. ‘A chastening experience’, she says in her usual Monday column. It has been, she says, a small hint of what it must be like to be old or disabled. Small but repeated inconveniences compared to what some people have to put up with, but it has been a revelation of what it must be like to be dependent on others. She discovered that in