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Why Elizabeth Edwards Left God Out of Her Last Goodbye

A dying person's last words are often, and perhaps too easily, held out as the key to understanding all that went before, and so it has been with Elizabeth Edwards. Her final public message, posted on Facebook, was characteristically eloquent, to the point, and full of grace -- that last word being one that Edwards herself often invoked, and one that was often applied to her, especially as she bore up under so many trials, the last of them the cancer that claimed her life on Tuesday. But the opening line of her public farewell was especially notable for its careful phrasing (Edwards, who ...

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