John Edwards Trial On

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The deceased wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is still beloved by those who find inspiration and solace in her books, which recount her long struggle against cancer, anguish from the loss of a child and disappointment with her husband's infidelity...

Elizabeth Edwards Gravestone
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Elizabeth wasn't a saint, but I found this (from the above linked story) incredibly touching:

...Each day for about two years after Wade [her oldest son] died, Elizabeth went to Oakwood [cemetary] to visit him. She brought fresh flowers, sat on a stone bench carved with his name and read aloud to her son from the Bible and his favorite books.

Eventually, Edwards ...began tending to graves of people buried nearby, especially the children.

"I cleaned around Wade like cleaning his room, and I cleaned around Oliver and Joe, since next to each child was his or her parents, who died after them and were unable to tend to the graves themselves," Edwards wrote. "It doesn't matter to me whether all this sounds odd. I did it because it made it easier for me to think there would be mothers who came after me to tend to Wade's grave when I no longer could."

Her efforts endeared her to the cemetery's groundskeepers, several of whom she came to count as friends. She stopped the daily ritual only after her daughter Emma Claire was born in 1998...