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Lauren set a goal years ago to help people have a merciful, loving and pain-free passing. For 13 years through her work with Capital Hospice in Manassas, she has visited with patients to listen and talk, pray and laugh ... providing companionship and simple pleasures, from strawberry milkshakes to country drives. If there’s a final wish she can fulfill, she’ll do it – she has even arranged for Reba McIntyre to call a teenage patient who couldn’t attend her country music concert. |
WINNERS' WORDS:
“Both my parents were older when I was born, so while I was still young I knew their time was coming. I’m a doer, so I said, ‘I need to see if I can do this.’ So I took the hospice’s volunteer course and liked it – there’s something uniquely human about being with people at the end of their lives. My mom ended up having an aneurysm and my dad died in surgery, so it turned out my training wasn’t for them – there was a much greater plan for me, to help scores of other people. And it’s been healing for me ... I’m able to do for others what I would have liked to do for my parents.”
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