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[> Subject: Stacy
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Author:
Cliff
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Date Posted: 00:23:06 06/28/07 Thu
I met Stacy in 2002, so I didn't know her as long as many people here did. We would go out on occasion--to dinner, or to listen to a band, or perhaps to a car cruise. On one of those evenings, late in 2002, we were sitting in her living room (probably playing with the dogs), and she said she wanted to show me something. She pulled out a scrapbook she had made during her first bout with cancer (in 1999, I think). I saw pictures of her as she went through the various treatments--surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. After she closed the book, I told her immediately that I'd noticed something that surprised me. In virtually every picture in that book, she had a smile on her face. I thought that was amazing--how does one keep smiling while going through all that? She said she actually felt happy--not about the cancer, of course, but because of all the people around her, both the family and friends she had when her ordeal started, and the people she met during her treatment, who seemed to really care about her. She said she couldn't help but have a positive outlook.
Ironically, she told me that night that she had a feeling the cancer would return sometime. And, in fact, the cancer had already returned, though no one knew it at the time, as it wasn't diagnosed until several months later. Through almost four years of treatment, Stacy kept that same outlook she'd had the first time around. Through such a long fight, it would have been so easy to simply give up. I'll always admire Stacy's ability to find something positive, no matter how great the obstacles and challenges she faced.
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thinking of you
I MISS YOU LITTLE SISTER!!!!!!
I was thinking about you, Barb
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stacy Preston
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