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...final days of the 2004 campaign, Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, learned that she had breast cancer. In her inspiring new memoir Saving Graces (Broadway), Edwards reflects, with her trademark frankness, on her battle with the disease as well as the death 10 years earlier of their son Wade in a freak auto accident. Edwards spoke with TIME's Andrea Sachs about her health, her family's wealth and the possibility of John Edwards...
Coming out and saying "I have breast cancer" would have been met with a lot of skepticism about our trying to manipulate the electorate. I had assurances that this delay was not going to adversely affect my health...
...Mayer, the ward had a gatekeeper, an odd little man known as Mr. Nick. Sporting silver loops in both ears and wrapping his salt-and-pepper braids into a bun behind his head, 56-year-old James Melvin Nicholas stood out in the crew-cut, uniformed staff. The breast of his white lab coat was smothered in goodwill medals given to him by VIP guests. His accent was effeminate and Mississippian. He held the lowly title of medical support technician. But from behind the nurse's station, where he worked, everyone knew who was in charge...
...baby now named Tessa Leavitt was born in a motel bathtub on the night of June 18, 2005. Her mother cleaned her, breast-fed her and cut the umbilical cord herself. The next day, the young Hispanic woman swaddled the infant in a white towel and took her to Fire Station 15 in Whittier, Calif., where she rang the doorbell and told the firefighters, "I want to give up my baby." When the paramedics arrived 30 minutes later, she put the child on their gurney and left. "It was eerie," recalls firefighter Kevin Cull. "The ambulance went...
...jobs and enrolling her son in Catholic school. She took pride when he made the honor roll but was disappointed when, at 17, he left school to sell drugs. Much like Tupac, Biggie looked to his mother for inspiration for his music. "My Momma got cancer in her breast," he mourned on his debut album, Ready to Die. "Don't ask me why I'm motherf___in' stressed...