Lori Davenport, Team Tiara Walker 2008
I am walking because I can be so self centered and trapped in my own little world. I do not have anyone in my life that has breast cancer but I have had a couple of family members die of cancer and have a few cancer survivors in my life. I have seen my grandmother fight her battle with leukemia but have really been helpless to do anything. And as people start to win their battle, I get caught up in my little world again and forget that there are women dying in their beds listening to the sounds of their children playing.
Suzi Bruin came back from her walk with such enthusiasm last year that I thought I needed to be inspired to think more of others and to teach my children to do the same. I want to walk for all of those ladies that are suffering, have defeated it and for those that will one day be struck with it. I am walking for awareness and for my future daughter-in-laws and granddaughters, my nieces and my neighbors who may be touched by breast cancer in the future. I am walking for all the sad stories I have heard since I signed up just three weeks ago. I am walking because I can and others can not. I am walking to remember to thank God for each day that I have with my family.