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“My mother once explained that she had a sense something was different during her pregnancy with me, but that somehow she also knew instinctively that whatever happened, it would all be OK,” says Grace. When her baby daughter arrived 10 weeks early, Debbie Stratton’s hunch was realised. Grace had a difficult start in life and was diagnosed at age one with cerebral palsy, which affects her movement, muscle control, posture and balance. Grace has happy memories of growing up on the family sheep farm in Auckland’s Waimauku, although she admits she’s not especially fond of animals, nor particularly outdoorsy.