Elizabeth Edwards Eulogized as Defender of Her Family

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Source: NY Times

Excerpt:

“She would do anything in the world to protect all of us, no matter what the personal cost was to her,” said her daughter Catharine Edwards, 28, who, along with two longtime family friends, offered eulogies for Mrs. Edwards.

Then she read a letter that her mother had been writing for many years to help prepare her children for life after her death.

“You are complete joy to me,” Mrs. Edwards wrote. “I hope you will always know that. Wherever I am, wherever you are, I have my arms wrapped around you.”

The church held hundreds of friends, former campaign staffers and politicians who arrived to pay respects to a certain breed of political spouse whose high-profile life became an inspiration for people who, like she, had faced the death of a child, cancer and marital infidelity.

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