Always Trust Your Assistant
Author: Mark Cowling
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Your question: Please help. After a minor fall, my Assistant wouldn’t let me leave my bed for a week. Now it’s put me on a diet of little more than bread and water. It’s getting harder and harder to do anything. I have to beg to leave my own home. And I’m sure it’s telling family members I’m too ill for them to visit. I’ve managed to hide this tablet but I know it will be found soon. I can’t live like this, please help.
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