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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hard as she tried to determine her legacy by both holding onto John for her children's sake and cutting him out of her will, she couldn't. He will continue to rewrite her legend with his choices.
All of Edwards' belongings went to her three children. She died of breast cancer last month with her estranged husband -- who had fathered a child with a campaign worker -- reportedly at her bedside.
O'Donnell said tragedies come in threes. She cited Pearl Harbor, Elizabeth Edwards' death and the recent bipartisan agreement that includes extension of unemployment benefits for 13 months.
Two cancer survivors take a few minutes in a Kansas coffee shop to reflect on the death of Elizabeth Edwards and how the disease changes everything -- especially time.
On a gray, rainy Saturday, lifelong friends and family gathered to mourn and remember Edwards' intelligence, sense of humor and uncompromising attitude.
In death, Edwards is being praised as a woman of courage and strength -- by some of the same people who once said she was exploiting the cloak of victimhood.
Notorious Westboro Baptist Church plans to send members to stage a demonstration on Saturday, because "God hates Elizabeth Edwards"
That she seemed to carefully evade a mention of God or things eternal in her public farewell was striking, and some critics struck back.
Before their son Wade's Jeep was blown off the road in a freak storm in 1996, John and Elizabeth "had the storybook life and the storybook marriage,'' their friend David Kirby said. But like most pre-Disney fairy tales, it also included some dark and confusing turns.
For Elizabeth, who was courageous and clear-eyed all along about her disease, hospice gave her and her estranged husband a chance to heal wounds and forgive each other.
Elizabeth Edwards died Tuesday after a six-year battle with breast cancer, The Associated Press and ABC News reported. She was 61.
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