Marathe's intake interview with Pat (p. 749)
The woman said ‘And we’ve been Disabled-Accessible since the beginning. One of only a handful of Houses in the metro area that are fully equipped to take disabled clients, I assume they told you down at Chit Chat.’ […] ‘… why I got to come here in the first place. Which I came in in a chair, too, originally, by the way.’ She teetered back out from the cabinet with a folder of Manila. ‘At the time I declared up and down I was too disabled to kneel and pray, to give you an idea of where I was at.’ She laughed gaily.
Context
Pat's own disability story, told sideways while rummaging in the cartridge cabinet: she arrived at Ennet House in a wheelchair herself, and her rock-bottom credential is having claimed to be "too disabled to kneel and pray." The House's accessibility isn't policy sentiment — it's staffed by a body that came through on wheels, which is exactly why the veil and the fauteuil get no special reception here.