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A Berth For The Night Was On Her List: Woman With Terminal Cancer Gets One Of Her Wishes On Mystic Ship.

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From: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT)
Date: 20061203
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Byline: Elizabeth Hamilton

Dec. 3--MYSTIC -- Sharon Wynn stood on the deck of the Joseph Conrad Saturday and wistfully fingered the heavy rope ladder that snakes its way up the tall center mast. Wynn can barely walk these days because Stage 4 cancer has invaded her bones and 12 organs, making it painful for the 64-year-old woman to stand up or sit down, but she cannot resist the lure of that ladder. "I want to climb this to the top," Wynn said, turning to her daughter-in-law, Justine Wynn. "Oh no," Justine says. "I'm putting my foot down." "My head says I can do ...

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