June 06, 2004
Race for the Cure
I almost didn't bother to go down for yesterday's Race for the Cure. It was pouring rain when my alarm went off. But when I turned on the tv news to see the weather report, they were interviewing a 14-year breast cancer survivor from Louisiana who talked about how moved and inspired she was by the huge number of people at the race in D.C. After that, I couldn't blow it off.
We did get damp, but not soaked. And there really is something impressive about 51,000 people walking together through the city. And while I do walks like this for my own selfish reasons (to get the exercise and the t-shirts), I get a lump in my throat when, for example, I find myself behind an older man with a limp and a sign on his back listing his mother and two sisters, or a teenager with one that says "In memory of my mom. I miss you."
Posted by Nic at June 6, 2004 09:21 AMThe first year I did it up here, I was walking the whole time behind a family with pink signs on their back..."in memory of"..."wife", "sister", etc.
I think what put the lump in MY throat was the combination of the middle-aged woman whose sign said "Daughter", and the 5yo girl on her father's shoulders, bearing the sign "mom".
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