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Article: Erin's gentle spirit fades away; Woman, 24, dies after long battle with rare disease
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- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- December 7, 2004
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The Patriot Ledger
Using the little voice that her rare, fatal disease had left her
with, Erin Roberts told her family a couple of times this fall that
she was ready to "go home to heaven."
When she began to fade after a bout with double pneumonia in
October, her family set up a hospital bed in their living room and
brought her home to Hanover.
Last week, Roberts, 24, died in the arms of her mother, father and
sister. Family members and friends had been keeping a constant vigil.
"We were ready to let her go, and we were all prepared," her
father, Michael Roberts, said. "We have this huge void and we know
God is going to fill it somehow."
Roberts spent most of her life battling Niemann-Pick ...