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Section One : "Ladies don't fight."
Section Two : "As a child, stubborness was my greatest character flaw, but in 1975 I began to think it could also be my greatest asset."
Section Three: "When I woke up in Yonkers on the morning of January 26, 1977, I lay there wondering where I was."
Section Four : "Dr. Goodman said 'multiple sclerosis,' and I sat frozen in my chair, my mind racing."
Section Five : "One week before I should have become eligible to receive my first disability benefits check, I received a notice from the Social Security Administration denying my disability claim."
Section Six : "In January, 1979, Dr. Nathan told me he wanted to put me in the hospital for a week of tests."
Section Seven: "By October of 1979 when my Social Security disability case finally came to a hearing, I was as righteously indignant as only the victim of a great injustice can be."
Section Eight: "In June 1980, an article entitled 'Denied Your Social Security Benefit? Appeal!' appeared in the magazine 'Changing Times.'
Section Nine : "I went back to sitting but, as I sat, I often thought about Jimmy that night at the Five Point, the moment when I told him to find a nice girl and settle down, and he said, 'I would, if...'"
Section Ten : "It was mid-December, 1980, when I woke Jimmy with the news."
Section Eleven: "In January 1981, 'U.S. News & World Report' published a three-page article entitled 'Coming: Drive To Overhaul Social Security.'"
Section Twelve: "Through the first half of 1981, as my pregnancy wore on, Jimmy's behavior confused and alarmed me."
Section Thirteen: "In November of 1981, I knew the government was looking at my case, but I refused to spend my time worrying about it."
Section Fourteen: "In early 1982, I still wasn't sure I was caught up in Ronald Reagan's disability 'reviews.'"
Section Fifteen: "The morning of April 7, 1982, I gathered myself and my questions together and went out into the snow-piled streets, leaving my son with Jimmy."
Section Sixteen: "On April 7, 1982, the worse of the crisis was over."
Section Seventeen: "So seven months after the disability cutoffs began, Ronald Reagan's Social Security 'reviews' had finally made the news."
Section Eighteen: "From April 3, 1982 on, my life was simple."
Section Nineteen: "In the summer of 1982, I was in pretty good shape."
Section Twenty: "In early September 1982, I called my local Social Security office to ask about the progress of my appeal."
Section Twenty-One: "On May 11, 1983, at 1:44 in the afternoon, my lawyer and I entered Administrative Law Judge Jones's courtroom."
Section Twenty -Two: "On June 14, 1983 the 'Times' made its strongest statement yet."
Section Twenty-Three: "I received my 'Social Security Determination' on the afternoon of July 3, 1983, and at 10:00 at night I sat re-reading it, closed inside my tiny bathroom with the door shut to keep the light from shining into my children's eyes."
Section Twenty-Four: "In February 1984, I finally got legal help, a paralegal whose name had been mentioned to me once before."
Section Twenty-Five: "Nineteen eighty-five was a busy time for disability review news."
Section Twenty-Six: "In 1986, the Social Security reviews were back in the papers again."
Section Twenty-Seven: "So my part in the Social Security disability reviews was finally over."
Bibliography: This section cites 225 articles from the "New York Daily News," "The New York Times," "The Wall Street Journal," "Time," "Business Week," 'Newsweek," "U.S. News and World Report," "The Nation," "Changing Times," "The National Review," and "The New Republic."