Our friend Gigie is a thirty five year old mother with a precocious five-year-old daughter, but that's not what makes her special. Five years ago Gigie was diagnosed with a life threatening brain tumor, and at that time the doctors only gave her two years to live. During these past few years Gigie has had to desperately fight for her life. Just as Scout in Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird learns what "true" courage is from observing the people around her, I have done the same watching Gigie. During the three years that the novel takes place, Scout goes from thinking that courag…
