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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.

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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
Lawyer
Teacher
Writer
Jacksonville
Florida
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards
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It's just a part of our nature to hope.
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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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I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.
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We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.
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