ABOUT ANGIE

A beloved daughter, a courageous spirit…

My daughter, Angela Brooke Warner, was born on March 11, 1981, with dazzling eyes and a hearty spirit. Three months later, my wife, Linda, and I found ourselves frightened and horrified when we learned that Angela had cystic fibrosis.

From the time of the diagnosis at three months, Angela began an intensive daily regimen of treatments and therapies. She adapted remarkably to the structured schedule. Throughout her life Angela carried out her exhaustive routine with a quiet discipline and grace. Until she was nineteen, her friends and even the boys she dated were not aware of her illness. Preferring not to risk the pity of others, Angela focused on her friends, her family and helping others.

Angela excelled in school but always had time to reach out to others. Her thoughtful and genuine expressions of love and friendship resulted in many lifelong relationships. Angela’s “neon” smile was practically a trademark.

She was a varsity cheerleader in high school and graduated with honors. She began a small eBay business while in college and briefly relocated to California before health issues brought her back to Minnesota.

All that Angela was, and all that she accomplished, was achieved while fighting a courageous daily battle against cystic fibrosis.

On February 6, 2003, at age twenty-one, our precious Angela lost her fight with cystic fibrosis and passed away. For Linda and me, Angela will always be the love of our lives and our hero. She brought meaning to each day and her life serves as an inspiration for us to fulfill her legacy — a legacy of love.

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
— Henry David Thoreau

Shed no tears of sorrow for I am not gone. Believe in your heart I will be there. Believe in your heart and I am there.
— Author Unknown

I love thee. I love thee with a love that shall not die; till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
— William Shakespeare

A heartbreaking story of a grieving father's devotion to his daughter. I'm sure this book will be of help to other families facing the same trials.
— Judge's comments, Benjamin Franklin Book Awards

Should his heart break and the grief pour out, it would flow over the whole earth, it seems, and yet, no one sees it.
— Anton Chekhov

As you hold me close in memory, even though we are apart my spirit will live on, there within your heart, I am with you always.
— Author Unknown

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
— Sir Thomas Aquinas

But such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam, when that which drew from out the boundless deep, turns home again.
— Alfred Tennyson

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
— Michelangelo

In prayer, you encounter God in the soft breeze, in the distress and joy of your neighbor and in the loneliness of your own heart.
— Henri Nouwen

A new part of my research has been stimulated by Don Warner's book.
— Dr. Warren Warwick, pioneering CF physician

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.
— Anne Sullivan

The stories of past courage...can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul.
— John F. Kennedy

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play... and to look up at the stars.
— Henry Van Dyke

Love is the beauty of the soul.
— Saint Augustine

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you…..I loved you so –’twas Heaven here with you.
— Author Unknown

Read this book if you want to be reminded of the strength of the human spirit.
— Reader

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They that love beyond the worlds cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.
— William Penn

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
— William James

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
— Napoleon Hill

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Winston Churchill

And can it be that in a world so full and busy; the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up.
— Charles Dickens

Always tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember anything.
— Mark Twain

This book should be read not only by those dealing with illness or loss, but by anyone who wants a glimpse of a family demonstrating grace through adversity. Highly recommended.
— Amazon Reviewer

Your book has renewed my life….
— Terri, mother of two children with CF

Love...bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.
— 1 Corinthians 13:7-8

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich Nietzsche

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again.
— Author Unknown

For everything there is a season…a time to break down and a time to build up; a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
— Ecclesiastes 3:1-4