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I'm a musician. It's my life, and in this life, you cannot succeed alone. You need friends, you need extraordinary people. Judy Whiting was both. A famous Nashville Producer, she was kind enough to accept a mix tape that I sent her. She was a highly energetic woman, knew everybody, believed everything is possible. She also had cancer. I had wired money to my paypal account to pay for the replication of my cd, but her health kept deteriorating. I was praying everyday, and exchanging emails with her even more frequently, but I soon came to realize that nothing short of a real initiative was going to get my friend out of the woods. She was recently divorced, and her ex suspended payments for her health insurance. A complex surgery was urgently needed, as were the $3,000 without which my friend would not be able to receive treatment, and would die soon.

Exit was the cd replication. Realizing nobody was stepping in enough, I paid close to one third of her medical expenses. I also created a cause of facebook, that has grown to 40 members. But all this is a thing of the past. For last week, unable to withstand the shock of the surgery, Judy Whiting passed away.

Did I fail? and if yes, why? It took me time to realize I had not failed, and that just when I thought I was a one giving to her, Judy's life and death would come to bring so much more to me. I'm talking about her legacy, which I feel compel to uphold, by propagating her souvenir, but more importantly, by achieving what I had started with her, and taking my life to that land where everything is possible, and miracles are created everyday, one at a time.

I never thought necessity could make me accomplish that much. But this is not about me, but about what was done, which had to be done, and happened to be done by me. I could have done more, but I still can. Life is not over. It actually began the day she died. For that was the day she made me the gift of responsibility, the gift of a life lived to its fullest extend. I will keep helping others, and nothing, not even death, is going to stop me. Thank you for reading, and may today be a day where you too are making a small miracle.