I am not sure if any other book has made me cry at every turn of the page. Maybe, it is because this was written in 2009 and I know how her life ended in 2010. I don't know another women who could have gone through all the adversity she went through with such grace and character and the utmost respect from concerned family, friends, and strangers. She probably endured the most painful event any parent could hope to never have to face, the death of her first born child Wade in a car accident in 1996. This one event affected her life traumatically. Her and her husband, future presidential candidate John Edwards, decided to have two more children at a later stage in their lives. Then, while her husband was consumed with politics, she discovered she had breast cancer. She battled the breast cancer only to have it come back a few years later as terminal cancer. If that wasn't enough of a blow she discovered her husband cheated on her and fathered another child. The pain Elizabeth Edwards suffered demonstrates resilience to the likes of which I have never witnessed before. This was a very heartfelt and inspirational book.
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