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To: swampdweller
No problem! Believe it or not, it gets better. We picked her name back when her mom was pregnant with our first child, but didn't use it because we had a son. She's named after four people: My grandmothers, my wife's aunt, and the aunt of a friend. This friend's aunt was diagnosed with cancer while she was pregnant, and her doctors assumed she would terminate the pregnancy because it was a fast-acting cancer and she would almost certainly de if they didn't start treatment right away. When she refused they gave her flack about how she wouldn't be around for her other kids, her own life was valuable, etc. She chewed them out and said, "If one of my other kids ran out in front of a bus and I died pushing him out of its path, you guys would call me a hero. This baby deserves the same and I'm having it."

She did die, but she had a healthy son first.

48 posted on 04/07/2008 10:53:09 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

I am just so moved by the love of mothers. The mother you talked about was so unselfish. I can’t imagine how difficult the situation was that she endured. What a great legacy she has passed down to her son and now, through you, to your daughter. I’ll bet she didn’t think of herself as a hero....but just a mom loving her child. Did she live to see her son?


53 posted on 04/07/2008 11:09:20 PM PDT by swampdweller (Live Free or Die Hard)
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