Elizabeth Edwards, 1949-2010

Elizabeth Edwards at a cancer event this September in Los Angeles
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Reports coming in now that Elizabeth Edwards has succumbed to cancer.

Edwards passed away at 10:15 a.m. ET, CNN reports.

The Gothic details of the final years of her life make her death more poignant, but that’s not what made my shoulders slump yesterday when we learned that she was in the final stages of the disease. I keep coming to back to the age of the Edwards’ two youngest children: 12 and 10. That’s the only detail that really matters.

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