http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/4442/0 en http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> “In Our Own Voices,” Week III </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/22nd_-_charlene.jpg" alt="" title="Charlene in the DTES. Photo by Murray Bush - Flux Photo" width="450" height="305" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the fall of 2008, I lost my sister to brain cancer. Only one month later, I lost one of my lifetime friends to a heart attack. A few months after that, I lost another close friend to lung cancer. All these deaths happened in a five-month period. In March 2009, the mother of a good friend of mine passed away. Together these losses led me to decide to retire on my 60th birthday.</p> <p><a href="http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/kingdom-hastings-and-main/7567#comments Charlene DTES Power of Women Group Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:12:40 +0000 dawn 7567 at http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca