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Welcome to the Website of
Letters for Lizzie and Walking with Arthur
“Life
is dangerous.”
So
begins Letters for Lizzie, a gripping and true story of one couple’s
fight to survive and do right against overwhelming odds.
Jim and Lizzie O’Donnell seemed
to have everything. They had a beautiful home in the Boston suburbs. Jim was
very successful in the financial services business. They had a summer home, with
a 70-mile view, in the mountains of upstate New York. They had three sons they
loved deeply, and who they could afford to send to the finest of private
schools. But with all life had given them, they yearned only more to help
others in our broken and needy world. So they gave up the money, the lovely
homes, the friends and family who lived nearby, and moved to a little town in
Indiana. There, they hoped merely to serve others well. They knew money would
be tight, and life would be unfamiliar and different. But they were ready.
Their desire seemed so noble, so worthy. In fact, they felt God had asked them
to go. So, they went. And within three months Lizzie was diagnosed with
terminal cancer.
Letters for Lizzie was
one of several cancer survivors' stories reported on in The Wall Street
Journal in 2004. Those stories won the Pulitzer Prize for Amy Dockser
Marcus in April, 2005.
Letters for Lizzie is
their story of love, friendship and a battle for life.
Walking with Arthur is
Jim's story of learning to love Lizzie more than himself.
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