Sometimes the Words "Fight Back" Are Not Enough

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I first saw your bracelet on the arm of my dear friend Candace Davidson. Candace and I have been friends for 24 years, since we were teenagers. She is one of my greatest creative inspirations. One of the three amigos. When she was diagnosed, my husband and I got bracelets to show our support and have been wearing them ever since. Candace bravely ended her battle with cancer in October 2009. Last fall, I gave my friend Else one of these bracelets as her sister was battling lung cancer in Denmark, and she was helpless here in Canada. Dagmars’ battle with cancer ended on January 17, 2010. Else had given the bracelet to her niece Treena upon arrival in Denmark after her sisters' death. Just before they closed the casket, Treena took off the bracelet, and placed into her mothers’ hands. A fitting tribute to a woman who was reknowned for her love of life.
Thank you for giving this family a very fitting and apt closure to a dreadful disease.
Sometimes saying fight back is not enough - in any language.
F@%# Cancer!