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She just bought the shoes, after a shopping spree at Hötorget. She puts them on, and goes out into the September sun.

She is putting make up on her eyelids, and puts on a layer of read lipstick. ”I want to look beautiful for as long as I live. Otherwise I might as well die today”, she says.

Despite eating more that twenty different medecines on a daily bases, her back constantly hurts. Her joints, her legs, her head. Everything hurts.

”I can't take it much longer”, she says.

All of Halinas hair disappeared in the chemo therapy treatments. But her beauty is the last thing that Halina is willing to sacrifice. For her birthday party, Halina puts on her wig.

Halina loves to sit and look at her photo albums. ”How beautiful I was”, she says about the photo, taken two years ago. ”And look how ugly I look now”.

Her husband Gert is constantly by her side. He supports her, helps her to get up in the monrnings, makes sure that she takes her medecine, that she eats. And he gives her comfort.

Halina Wiltman went to the doctor fifteen times during four months, for the severe pain in her back. She asked for an x-ray. But the doctors just sent her home with some painkillers. During the sixteenth visit the doctors finally discovered what was…

Staff Sgt. Daniel Barnes kisses his son, Tobias Barnes, 7, goodnight. Despite the long difficult journey, Daniel is grateful because he came home to his family. His best friend Gavin Reinke was not so lucky.

Staff Sgt. Daniel Barnes is reflected in the dinning room window of his new home. When a nosey neighbor asked how much his dream home cost, Barnes quipped, 'two legs.'