Elizabeth, you are always welcome to drop by DU when you are fighting insomnia or at any other time!
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"This is how Elizabeth Edwards's public self has been reduced, rendered and rehashed to a flurry of snapshots, a few key pixels of her life. "When you try to convey something in a shorter way, the farther you move from the truth of it," she says. "So you do see, sort of, almost a monochrome picture of yourself. It does resemble you. But it's not truly you."
She is not complaining. She is, in fact, having a blast, excited about the Democratic convention next week in Boston. She's romping through Manhattan on this day, shopping for convention clothes and still ebullient about John Kerry's decision to select her husband.
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This (insomniac) tendency accelerated in the days that preceded Kerry's selection of his running mate. On the night before he announced his decision, Elizabeth Edwards fell asleep around 11 and was awakened at 12:30 a.m. by a call from their older daughter, Cate, who had just graduated from Princeton and was in the process of moving. Elizabeth got out of bed and compiled lists of things to do. She wasn't tired. She went online and Googled. She found the now-laughable (but then unsettling) New York Post headline that said Kerry would pick Richard Gephardt. She read this closely. She noted that the story was not sourced, that it said only, "The New York Post has learned" and that it didn't have a byline. She decided not to pay attention to the New York Post. Edwards has a sharp eye for the authentic and is easily offended by artifice. She was militant during the primaries about not putting John in any strange hats, poses or contrived settings. Once, the Edwards for President staff wanted to do a photo op of John flipping pancakes, but it didn't get past Elizabeth. "She said, 'He never does that in real life, why should he do it now?' " says Elizabeth's brother Jay Anania, a filmmaker who lives in New York. (Elizabeth notes that the pancake idea didn't get past John either.)"
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