Elizabeth Edwards Signs Book at High Point Furniture Market
Elizabeth Edwards, who announced last week she is battling an incurable reappearance of cancer, was back in North Carolina for a book signing days after hitting the campaign trail in Ohio.
More than 100 people came to a High Point furniture showroom Wednesday to see Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator John Edwards. She talked about the support she has received and signed copies of her book, “Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers.”
“Whatever it is,” Edwards said. “Every hardship, every canyon you have to walk through is easier if you have the people alongside you, the people you care about and the people who just wish one another well.”
She spoke at a luncheon in Cleveland on Monday while her husband was in San Francisco, and two days later she attended the High Point Market, a biannual show about 90 miles west of Raleigh that bills itself as the largest wholesale home furnishings event in the world.
Virginia Martina, 56, a sales representative from Pennsylvania, didn’t see anything political about the visit.
“There are no political boundaries here,” Martina said. “It has nothing to do with all of that. … No matter what our life experiences are, we can all identify with something like this.”
For Susan Kasberger of Mooresville, it was an opportunity to have Edwards sign a book for a friend diagnosed with cancer.
“To … my sister,” Edwards wrote. “Thousands of women, myself included, are cheering for you.”
Since Edwards announced the return of her cancer last Thursday, she and her husband have received mixed reactions to their decision to continue the presidential campaign.
But the amount of money given to John Edwards’ campaign through the Internet has jumped by about 50 percent since the couple made the announcement. On Wednesday, the campaign had collected about $580,000 online for the week, according to a tally by ActBlue.com, which counts all the donations made through Edwards’ Web site.
And a CBS News poll released Wednesday found that voters by a 2-to-1 margin support their decision.
