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Widow of Christopher Reeve Dies of Lung Cancer
Reeve, a singer-actress who gave up some of her own career to be one of
the nation's best-known caregivers, died late Monday at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Medical Center of lung cancer, said Kathy Lewis,

Lewis said she was at Reeve's hospital bedside on Friday, and Reeve was
"tired but with her typical sense of humor and smile, always trying to
make other people feel good, her characteristic personality.''

"Four months ago, at a fundraising gala for the foundation, Reeve looked
healthy in a long, formal gown and said she was responding well to
treatment and her tumor was shrinking.

"I'm beating the odds and defying every statistic the doctors can throw at
me,'' Reeve said then. "My prognosis looks better all the time.''

She was still looking well on Jan. 13, when she sang Carole King's "Now
and Forever'' at Madison Square Garden during the retirement ceremony for
Mark Messier's New York Rangers jersey. Reeve was a close friend of
Messier.

Asked how she kept her spirits up, Reeve said she "had a great model.''

"I was married to a man who never gave up,'' she said.

Senator Dianne Feinstein said of Reeve, "I thought that after everything
that she had gone through with Chris that she would have time to smell the
flowers and be in the sun. But apparently that was not meant to be.''