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For Cate Edwards, the 25-year-old daughter of presidential hopeful John Edwards and his wife, Elizabeth, one of the worst days of her life comes four days before we meet, when a bone scan reveals that her mother's breast cancer has returned in an incurable form.

"I spent three hours in class thinking, 'Well, I want my mom to see me graduate from grad school, and I want my younger sister and brother [Emma Claire, 9, and Jack, 7] to have the mom that I had in childhood,' and all those really desperate thoughts.

And the thoughts come back occasionally," says the Harvard Law School student, who is interested in public-interest law. Up until this point in our conversation, Cate — who is sitting in the bar of New York's Hudson hotel looking fresh and chic in a navy silk Rozae Nichols top, J Brand skinny jeans, and Rainbow flip-flops, her dark hair framing her pretty face — is eloquent and funny, talking about fashion (she lov