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>> Our last call comes to us from las vegas, nevada. >> Caller: Hello, good afternoon. >> Good afternoon. >> Caller: Mrs. Edwards I wanted to thank you very much for some very articulate and very detailed and complete descriptions of the kerry-edwards plan. It very much clarified a loft the issues for me, and i would like to just make a request of you and mrs. Heinz kerry, would you would, please, in the next coming days and the first days of the kerry-edwards administration, should the republican party continue its history of attacking the women violently and vociferously in their vocal attacks that you please remember that many of us do not agree with that. I love strong, hard-hitting, to-the-point women. You and mrs. Heinz kerry have proven that you are them. The people, the democratic underground whose posts i read quite frequently also enjoy very much you and mrs. Heinz kerry, and my mother, too, actually appreciates articulate women. >> Thank you, caller. >> Thank you. Now, I'm also a reader of "democratic underground" and a lot of the other blogs and lists out there to see what's going on. I sure get a lot of great information from those sites. And thank you very much. Both teresa and i have been through tragedies a lot worse than having people say bad things about us. They're just words and i promise you they won't bother us. >> Mrs. Edwards, you also have your own blog site at johnkerry.Com. How often do you write? >> I write every couple of days. I meant to write last night because I was at a great apple orchard in maine, i want thed to write about but with a 4-year-old and 6-year-old taking most of my attention i didn't t a chancete aboutha last night. Perhaps I'll do that tonight. >> Can you share with our audience a little background about you, your family, where you grew up your mom and dad and your children today? >> Let's see, i have -- I was born in jacksonville. My dad was in the navy. It was duvall county. I traveled wherever my dad went. My brother is a year younger than I am, a filmmaker and instructor at a film school in new york. My sister is a bookkeeper and mother in bradenton, florida. I have my family pretty much spread out. My parents, my father is retired living in sarasota, and i just got i chance to see them in the last couple of days and they got a chance to go to a rally of my husband's, which is great. We lived all over the world really. My dad spent a lot of time in japan. I got three tours of duty in japan so I was there for a total of nine years, eight years while he was stationed there, and one year while we stayed when he was serving in vietnam, we stay there had so we could be close to him. Graduated from high school in northern virginia in the washington D.C. Area, and decided to go to college, first at the women's college of the university of virginia and to chapel hill which turned out to be a good choice since that's where i met john. >> Your children today? >> I had four children. We have a child in the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s i was saying at the town hall. Our oldest child, wade, died in 1996. He was a splendid boy, three weeks before had won a voice of america speech contest about what it means to be an american. Our oldest daughter is 22, just graduated from princeton, kate. She has been busy on the campaign trail with a schedule just about as busy as anybody else's speaking to young people about the issues that are important to them. I actually steal a lot of her lines. She's pretty good at this. Then then i have a 6-year-old, emma claire and 4-year-old, jack who is a kindergarten pistol. >> Did the loss of your son allow you to rethink what he was going to do and really lead him into politics? >> Well, we've been talking about this befre, before wade ed we talked about john's running actually for the senate seat that he ran for. Everyone w has lost a child will tell you you pretty much wipe the slate clean on the day that happens and anything seems possible and nothing seems possible so I don't know whether it's more likely or less likely that he followed that path after wade died but as it turned out, that he has done what wade did want for the send I'mad did. He is a true voice for people who want to aspire to the american dream. He has a great story of growing up in a working class family and having all of the possibilities of america open up to him and he's all about making certain that happens for the rest of the country. >> Elizabeth edwards, we want too thank you for joining us from harrisburg, pennsylvania, taking our calls. What's the rest of your week like? Do you have a schedule? >> Hostly I know that tomorrow I'm in ohio and minnesota and iowa. I know that I'm going to be back in my parents' territory in florida towards the end of the week, but every day i get up and get to read where I'm going the next day so i can figure out how to dress. >> We thank you and appreciate you being here with us on c-span. >> Thanks very much.
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