Vanessa will run marathon

[ginnyinWI]

an interesting little item from the Globe:

<<Kerry daughter wants to run; Chelsea hits South End
By Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan, Globe Staff | February 16, 2005

GOING THE DISTANCE Following in her father's footsteps, Vanessa Kerry is training to run in the Boston Marathon. John Kerry's youngest daughter is studying in London on a Fulbright scholarship, but told friends in a recent e-mail that she's training for the April race. (Her father has said he competed in the late 1970s.) In the e-mail, Kerry said she's running as part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's marathon team and invited friends to visit the Dana-Farber website and make a donation supporting cancer research. (Among those who've responded are famous friends: singer Carole King and Al Gore's middle daughter, Kristin Gore.) Reached yesterday in Bozeman, Mont., where her mother, Julia Thorne, lives, Kerry declined to specify her reasons for running the marathon, but said that her parents, both of whom have been treated for cancer, are an inspiration. ''It's for everybody I've known who's had cancer," said the third-year Harvard Medical School student. ''It's a way for me to be involved in something positive and proactive after the election.">>

[Lavender Brown]

1. Awesome - good for her!

[JI7]

2. she is a really good person

i saw her on tv many times. she kind of reminds me of one of my cousins .

[muse]

3. And, she loves her dad.

As do I. :)

[karynnj]

4. Her comments after the election were so sweet

Vanessa and her sister were both so positive on Larry King about a month after the election. Vanessa spoke of having learned so much from her dad during the campaign and how proud she was of him. Some of the things both girls were saying almost sounded like things Kerry would say. They seem to share so many of his values.

[elshiva]

5. She's a sweetheart, like her dad.