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My friend Sally lives life to the full. We often walk together a few miles around the lake in Virginia USA where we live. Sometimes I have a job to keep up with her. She does an exercise program at Curves Gym several times a week and she is a picture of rosy-cheeked health. Recently she organised a concert for eighty guests in her home and she is an avid theatre buff. She has always got something interesting to say. Last year she travelled to Hawaii and to the Dominican Republic. She has just invited me and my husband for dinner tonight on the spur of the moment.
A Letter from America
January 2005
From Ki Harley Roberts

One of the kindest and most warm hearted people I have ever known, she has been a constant source of support and joy to me since I moved to America.
It is not easy to remember that she has recovered from cancer not once but twice in her life. As a young woman she was treated successfully for skin cancer which had been caused by the medication she was prescribed for acne. After radiation treatment, which was primitive in those days, she got on with her life with courage and energy. She went to Japan where she worked as a teacher for several years.

Then she lived in Germany and travelled all over Europe. That was before she married David and they lived happily ever after. There was a blot on their landscape of happiness in 1991 when Sally felt unwell. It took six difficult months and a change of doctors to get her diagnosis of uterine cancer. She had a hysterectomy and then radiation treatment again. It must have been a hard time but when I asked about that Sally replied, “Well my story is not much to tell.” Her philosophy has always been to do the best she can in terms of getting good medical treatment and also in her life style.

She rests when she needs to and she seeks out activities and people that help her to feel good. When she is satisfied that she has done her part she hopes for a good outcome and tries not to worry. That is not to say that she is super woman or that she is never fearful, sad or angry. She suffers all the trials and tribulations of normal life and she has a full range of feelings. Sally will be 80 this year. I admire her enormously. Let her be an inspiration to us all!