Reply #10: Heartbreaking [View All]

[Nutmegger]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/2003-11-19-edwards-son_x.htm

In an interview with USA TODAY, Edwards, 50, and his wife, Elizabeth, 54, talked this week about how and why their son Wade came to be such a pivotal presence in Four Trials. He was so intertwined with two of the cases that "the book wouldn't have been complete without him," Edwards says as his campaign bus goes from Sioux City to Onawa.

Edwards has agreed to talk about Wade to the news media once, with USA TODAY, but his wife does most of the talking.

He sticks to matter-of-fact statements and steers clear of memories and emotions, lest they overwhelm him. But in the book — at times with Elizabeth's help — he writes movingly of his relationship with his son and his response to his death.

The two were constant companions. They climbed Mount Kilimanjaro together when Wade was 15. They discussed Edwards maybe going into politics. Wade took his proud parents to Washington on a trip he won in an essay contest. He worked at his father's law office and told friends he hoped one day to practice with him.

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