Naomi Linehan, cowriter of Vicky Phelan’s memoir, on their time together and the cancer campaigner’s driving passion: her devotion to her children
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There was a kindness and pureness to her that everybody loved, which was immediately apparent from the moment you met her No sooner had she landed in the US than it seemed there were people reaching out to connect with her, mostly Irish people living in the US. They wanted to help her with the grocery shop and give her lifts to her treatments. Nonetheless, life was lonely there, in an apartment so far from home. As much as she appreciated deeply the kindness of strangers, it also served to remind her of what she was missing. It’s your family usually that you do this with, she said.
Vicky knew how much those messages of hope helped her family too. She would often say how her father John would get in touch with a gentle nudge for her to post something on social media if she had been quiet for a while. She could see the strength he took from the community that grew around them as a family – the goodwill which emanated from all across the land.
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