"On the day you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that on the day you die, the world will cry and you will rejoice." An old Native American proverb "A 79 year old Jewish mother and grandmother, facing metastatic breast cancer, shares the wisdom, feistiness and humor that helped her survive a toxic childhood to become her city's most honored and beloved community leader." Joan Paulson Gage