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A woman who refused to sell her home to developers for $1 million, and then lived there while they built around her, has died at age 86. How inspiringly stubborn. ( via )

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1. Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her

POLITICS BUZZ: The candidate’s wife shows remarkable courage and grace in the face of cancer diagnosis. What do you do when you learn you have incurable cancer spreading in your body? Most people would pull the covers over their head and feel sorry for themselves, but Elizabeth Edwards insisted on continuing her work helping her husband become President of the United States. She inspired the press, bloggers, and the general public by saying “I don’t look sickly, I don’t feel sickly,” and then continued her hectic schedule.

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1. Washington Post: “chance of surviving five years is well below 50 percent”
2. Elizabeth Edwards Gives Ann Coulter a Good Spanking
3. Is it REALLY possible to run for president with a wife who has cancer?
4. “If you’re not able in a focused, thoughtful way to deal with this kind of pressure, you’re not ready to be president.”
5. Elizabeth Edwards’s Cancer “More Likely To Be Controlled By Anti-Estrogen Drugs”
6. Not Nice: Elizabeth Dole Ignores Elizabeth Edwards Illness
7. Viewers rip Katie Couric’s interview with John and Elizabeth Edwards
8. Elizabeth Edwards Bouyed by Supporters
9. John Edwards Almost as Pretty as Wife
10. John and Elizabeth Edwards show the meaning of courage.
11. Leave Elizabeth Edwards Alone Already
12. A timeline of the important dates in John and Elizabeth’s marriage
13. Slate says that Elizabeth Edwards is probably not biologically related to her two youngest children
14. Husband John: “Any time, any place that I need to be with Elizabeth, I will be there, period” (NYT)
15. Blogger Jim Buie’s first hand account of meeting Elizabeth Edwards
16. Photo of John And Elizabeth Edwards the day there were married
17. Personal loss helps this blogger relate to the bravery of John and Elizabeth
18. Right-wing “journalists” speculate that cancer announcement was designed to help the Presidential run
19. Saving Graces is a “disarmingly moving” memoir on fighting cancer
20. Wikipedia page on Elizabeth Edwards
21. Elizabeth’s MySpace page