Elizabeth Edwards Is Somehow Managing to Maintain Her Dignity While Being Publicly Embarrassed by the Angels Now

Well, this is sad…

Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She was 61.

She died at her North Carolina home surrounded by her three children, siblings, friends and her estranged husband, John, the family said…

Elizabeth Edwards had focused in recent years on advocating health care reform, often wondering aloud about the plight of those who faced the same of kind of physical struggles she has, but without her personal wealth.

It's kind of weird to imagine that in some alternative reality in which things went a little differently this could be the nation's First Lady passing away today.

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