My lifetime friend, Lucille Williams, left this earth on September 23, 2007. She was 97. An African-
American woman, she cooked and cleaned for my family from the time I was 4 months old until I was a teenager. For the past 20 years we spent many hours talking on the phone. We talked about our daily lives, our families, friends, the weather. Arthritis made walking difficult for her. I was and still am in a wheelchair because of a stroke that paralyzed my left side. Often I said: "I wish I...