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I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Elizabeth Edwards
Age: 61 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 3
Died: 2010
Died: December 7
Attorney At Law
Attorneys In The United States
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Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president (George W. Bush) would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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My heart goes out to the grieving parents who lost their two-year-old or their newborn.
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Those who need a champion cannot afford compromise, in the face of forces that are powerful, persistent and pernicious and greedy.
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If you know someone who has lost a child, and you're afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you're not reminding them. They didn't forget they died. What you're reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift.
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If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
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But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
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I would have made different choices. You know, I might have married somebody else.
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