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On the recordJuly 19, 2007
If I had given up everything that my life was about, first of all, I would let cancer win before it needed to. You know, maybe eventually it will win, but I've let it win before it need to, and I just basically start dying. I don't want to do that. I want to live.
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Elizabeth Edwards
New Hampshire

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Elizabeth Edwards discusses her determination to continue fighting against cancer while supporting her husband's campaign.

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