“Time is very precious.
Spend it with good people
doing good things
and you’ll have no regrets.
Don’t waste your time and energy
comparing yourself to others or being jealous.
Nobody’s life is perfect
even though it may appear so.
Focus on the good things in your life,
not the bad.
You’ll have a happier life,
a full life."

Words of Wisdom
by Margie Sinni

The Hope Bracelet is an endeavor by mutual friends of Margie Sinni, who was one of the "good people doing good things".  For the better part of 13 years Margie lived with breast cancer.  Certainly she suffered with the disease, but in Margie's case it is more appropriate to say she "lived" with it.  And she taught others how to live.  Always concerned more about everyone other than herself, she would volunteer with fellow cancer patients bringing her wonderful smile and memorable laugh to those who found little to laugh about.  She endured her illness with grace, dignity, courage and humor.  She lived to see her son survive the devastation of the Twin Towers on 9/11 and to see her daughter married, but she did not live to see her beautiful granddaughter.  Her "Words of Wisdom" are just a sprinkling of the life lessons she left behind for her children to embrace in her absence.  The Hope Bracelet  is a joint effort to honor Margie's memory as well as the memory of all those lost to breast cancer.  It is a token of gratitude by one of Margie's friends because her own mother is a breast cancer survivor.  A quiet statement of support and encouragement for all those suffering with the disease today, it carries with it the "hope"  that the funds and awareness raised by the bracelet will contribute to a cure before too many tomorrows.
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