Thank you. She is kind of a "legend" in my family. I see my cousins on Facebook still post pictures of her and talk about her. She was kind of bigger than life. But you know, dying young kind of helps to make a person a legend. The tragic heroine and all that. I don't think my mother saw herself as a heroine at all. She thought it sucked that she had a terminal illness and I wholly agreed with her.

My family would laugh at the idea I am a chip off the block. I am definitely the family scapegoat. Even my mother kind of saw me as a troublemaker. On her deathbed she only had two pieces of advice for me...quit smoking cigarettes...and drink more water.

This was way before people carried water bottles. She was definitely ahead of her time.