Laura King Edwards Honored Her Sister With Her Heart and Her Feet in “Run to the Light”
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In today’s episode number 61, we meet Laura King Edwards, author of “Run to the Light,” a story of her life after she learned a few weeks following her wedding that Taylor, her young sister, had a rare disease for which there was and is no cure. Laura, a runner, began running for Taylor.
With her mother and family friends, Laura founded a charity in an effort to save children with the disease and she came closer to Taylor and her mother. Taylor didn’t quit and when the disease took her sight, Taylor wanted to run with Girls on the Run and she completed her first race, blind. Inspired by Taylor, Laura, a lifelong runner, began running in half marathons to raise money and awareness, and eventually, she put on a blindfold and ran for Taylor.
We start the show with Laura reading from the prologue, where she’s running for Taylor.
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Laura King Edwards is a writer, runner, and passionate rare disease advocate. Laura cofounded a nonprofit organization, Taylor’s Tale, which today is one of the world’s leading voices in the fight against rare disease.
Laura earned an English degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has spent her entire professional career in marketing. Oracle Fine Arts Review, Endurance Magazine, and many others have published her award-winning work.
A prolific storyteller, Laura speaks frequently and delivered a TEDx talk in 2017. Edwards, a Charlotte native, lives with her husband and son in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Run to the Light is her first book.
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