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These horizons have included another person.'~When Rebecca de Saintonge's husband Jack developed Lewy Body Dementia - an incurable degenerative brain disease - she faced the dual challenge of trying to keep the integrity of their relationship intact while also avoiding her own destruction within their diminishing world. She survived by taking a lover.Through extracts from Rebecca's journal, One Yellow Door explores the conflicting emotions and complex ethics of infidelity in marriage where one partner is severely disabled. 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