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...next 19 years, their life seemed to approach perfection. They had two children, Wade and Catharine; John's career as a trial lawyer took off, making them fabulously wealthy; and Elizabeth managed to juggle her own legal work with the duties she cared about most: attending PTA meetings, shuttling the kids to soccer games and making their Halloween costumes. One year, when Wade and his friends wanted to dress as parts of a golf course, she figured out how to make real grass grow on cardboard. The idyll collapsed in April 1996, when Wade, 16, died in a freak...
Both parents were devastated, but Elizabeth had the hardest time coping with her grief. She quit work, changed her surname to Edwards (she had kept her maiden name at marriage) and stayed home, finding numbness, if not comfort, in watching the Weather Channel with the sound off. Eventually, she and John plunged themselves into creating memorials to their son, including the Wade Edwards Learning Lab in Raleigh...
...Elizabeth has said they decided to try to have more children to bring joy back into their home. It wasn't easy, but through intensive fertility treatments--the details of which she declines to discuss--she got pregnant. Elizabeth was 48 when Emma Claire arrived; she gave birth to John "Jack" Atticus at 50. However, she is by no means eager to be a spokeswoman for those trying to push the limits of reproductive biology. She was lucky, she says: "I don't want women to think, She did it at 50; so can I. It's extremely difficult...
...husband becomes Vice President, Elizabeth's first job will still be raising her kids. But she'll venture into issues, especially education. As one Edwards adviser puts it, "She has the smarts of Hillary Clinton and the charm of Tipper Gore." Friends say she would bring a refreshing lack of pretension to her new life. "She never puts on airs," says Washington pal Bonnie LePard. "In fact, sometimes she doesn't even put on shoes." (Elizabeth, LePard explains, once joined a campaign strategy meeting at her home barefoot and dressed in overalls.) Mostly, though, she would continue...
...WHAT WILL THE BANKRUPTCY ENTAIL? The job of Portland bankruptcy judge Elizabeth Perris is to establish the diocese's assets, its legitimate creditors and how many cents per available dollar each should receive. She will oversee its finances in the meantime, so Vlazny can maintain day-to-day operation without squandering those assets. She is not empowered to unilaterally close down parishes or lay off staff...